To an outsider Scouting must at first sight appear to be a very complex matter,
and many a man is probably put off from becoming a Scoutmaster because of the
enormous number and variety of things that he thinks he would have to know in
order to teach his boys. But it need not be so, if the man will only realise the
following points:
- The aim of Scouting is quite a simple one.
- The Scoutmaster gives to the boy the ambition and desire to learn for himself
by suggesting to him activities which attract him, and which he pursues till
he, by experience, does them aright. (Such activities are suggested in Scouting
for Boys).
- The Scoutmaster works through his Patrol Leaders.
