Scouting, Volume 2, Number 23, April 1, 1915 Page: 37
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FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
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well-employed idleness, you still leave 2,000 hours to the hoy, without
any leadership or training during that time. The result is that too
many boys spend these hours on the street playing 'Cops and Robbers.'
Educators throughout the country have been endeavoring for years to
find some substitute for the game of 'Cops and Robbers,' or, seriously
speaking, to bring out in these hours the better qualities which will de-
velop the boy into solid manhood and make of him a good citizen. This
entire movement should receive the support of the schools throughout
the country."
Scouting as an Educational Asset
Professor Roberts, of the Kansas State Agricultural College, in an
article on "School Science," writes the following appreciative comment
on the place of the movement in the school system:
There is just one solidary place where your boy and mine can get
today this kind of real, fundamental training which teaches him how
to be a man, how to take care of himself and others in emergencies,
and that, as you know, is absolutely not in the public schools at all. It
is in the organization of the Boy Scouts. Personally, from my own
observation of its effectiveness, I would not trade one solid good year
of Boy Scout lore and Boy Scout training, under a first-class scout-
master for any three years of any public school system under the
sun that I have ever seen.
Contrast the method of the Scouts, for example, with the method
of the schools. One is dynamic, the other static. The one develops to
the maximum, encourages, indeed forces, initiative; the other glorifies
military subservience to routine. The one not merely asks but demands
originality and resourcefulness. The other requires uniformity at all
costs, and exalts, above individual expression, the ideal of "discipline"
and "order." The one forces the boy to hammer himself out into some-
thing individual; the other hammers the individuality out of the boy.
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MORE THAN 50,000 BOYS HAD CAMP EXPERIENCE IN THE SUMMER OF
1914 BECAUSE OF THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SCOUT MOVEMENT
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