It ain’t ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It’s the things people know that ain’t so. Edwin Armstrong , electrical engineer and inventor of FM radio. Sometimes in Scouting tradition and long practice usurp Read More →
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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something: your Read More →
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This post on Doug Stowe’s The Wisdom of the Hands blog discusses a saying I find particularly compelling: “The way to the brain, goes through the hand” This isn’t a new thought, but it is Read More →
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This post on Doug Stowe’s The Wisdom of the Hands blog discusses a saying I find particularly compelling: “The way to the brain, goes through the hand” This isn’t a new thought, but it is Read More →
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832) is an important writer in the German language and Western culture. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, philosophy, and science and continue to be Read More →
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From Seth Godin’s blog; A toddler wants what she wants, now. That’s a win. A little later, when we’re more mature, we might define winning as getting what we want at the expense of someone else. I Read More →
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The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. Oliver Wendell Holmes I take Justice Holme's thought as a simple statement Read More →
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens was never a boy scout but no one has ever written more poignantly about boyhood. His contrarian, cross grained and curmudgeonly persona could not completely conceal his humanitarianism. Here are some of Read More →
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If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: Read More →
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Do not depend on the hope of results. When you are doing the sort of work you have taken on, essentially an apostolic work, you may have to face the fact that your work will Read More →
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Education in Love in Place of Fear – Founder’s Day
by Clarke Green on February 22, 2010 in Commentary,Good People - Good Ideas
February 22nd marks the birthday of Lord Robert Baden-Powell the founder of the Scout Movement and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) Founder's Day. Nearly all National Scout Associations throughout the world Read More →
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