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1857–1941 England
Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell of Gilwell (22 February 1857 – 8 January 1941) was a soldier, writer and founder of the world Scouting movement. He was the grandson of William Henry Smyth.
England Educators Military leaders Also known as: Baden Powell, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.
Leave this world a little better than you found it.
Baden-Powell's Last Message (1941)
If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!
Happiness is not mere pleasure, not the outcome of wealth. It is the result of active work rather than passive enjoyment of pleasure.
How to be happy though rich or poor (1930)
The scouts' motto is founded on my initials, it is: be prepared, which means, you are always to be in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.
Scouting for Boys (1908)
The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.
It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
Scouting is not an abstruse or difficult science: rather it is a jolly game if you take it in the right light. In the same time it is educative, and (like Mercy) it is apt to benefit him that giveth as well as him that receives.
Aids to Scoutmastership (1920)
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