How Scouting Changed the World

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“Of any one hundred boys who become Scouts, it must be confessed that thirty will drop out in their first year. Perhaps this may be regarded as a failure, but later in life, all of these will remember that they had been in Scouting and will speak well of the program… Each of the one hundred will learn something from Scouting, and all will develop hobbies that will add interest throughout the rest of their lives. Approximately one-half will serve in the military, and in varying degrees, profit from their Scout training… At least one will use it to save another person’s life, and many may credit it for saving their own. One in four boys in America will become Scouts, but it is interesting to know that of the leaders of this nation in business, religion and politics, three out of four were Scouts” (One Hundred Scouts Poem). The scouting program has changed the lives of many, whether it is providing them with a second chance at life or serving our nation on the other side of the world, or even being a leader on the political economic or social spectrum, and none of this would have even been remotely possible without the person who started the world wide scouting movement. This man is Lord Baden Powell. “He was born in February 1857 and joined the military in 1876 and was best in his class. In 1906 he wrote the handbook for boys and started the scouting movement” (Robert Baden Powell 1). The handbook for boys was a catalyst for teaching boys and girls everywhere the wonders of the outdoors while at the same time instilling the morals and knowledge that successful people around the world deserve to know. Lord Baden should be the man of the millennium because he has been able to better the world and community by encouraging youth to give...

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