Identifier: reviewofreviewsw59newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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kept step withtheir leaders during this historical period haveadvanced materially in their sense of personalresponsibility and in their understanding of whatit means to be a good citizen. They have beenthoroughly prepared for citizenship by the bestmethod of education, which is learning by do-ing. Methods and Objects of Scout Training Learning by doing. Therein lies thesecret of Scoutings success. It Is a gameto the boy who Is In It, a huge, splendidlyorganized game, with all the fine zest of com-petition, the finer zest of co-operation, thekeen testing of mind and muscle, the essentialgood sportsmanship of a football game. Onlyinstead of just piling up a score, Instead ofwinning for the sake of victory Itself, It Isconstructive, progressive. It gets some-where. It teaches without resorting to the didac-tic, that, after all, life can be lived so muchmore happily If one Is In possession of thefundamental virtues which lead to successfulmanhood. Hence, the Scout Is taught, by aJune—S
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PUTTING UP RED CROSS POSTERS system of doing, to be trustworthy, loyal,helpful and friendly; courteous, kind, obe-dient and cheerful; thrifty, brave, clean andreverent. Scouting doesnt booh the gang Idea away!It encourages It, but. Instead of having theplace of congregation on a street corner, Ittakes the boys out Into the country, and says,Here! now play to 5-our hearts content!But It doesnt merely say that and then leavethe boy alone! It Is too scientific for that! It gives him a leader, a clean, able-bodied,well-trained, public-spirited sort of man,who holds himself responsible for the moraleof his troop as a whole as well as Its Individ-ual members. Remembering that ScoutingIs always an outdoor game, he sets up afriendly rivalry among his boys, a rivalry thathas for Its end and aim achievement, and ItIs not long before the Scout feels that thebest way to achieve Is to learn, and the bestway to learn Is to actually put Into practicewhat his handbook teaches him to do. Scouting also

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