The 1910 edition of the Boy Scout Handbook included skills useful for the time: how to kill a rabid dog and stop a runaway horse.
We Scouts still learn to navigate by compass, how to right a swamped canoe and how to cook cobbler in a Dutch oven, but these are skills for leisure. Charming but antiquated.
More important than homemade splints, patch-collecting and tents, Boy Scouts learn character, courage and service. As a Boy Scout, I learned the value of friendship and citizenship, of … [visit site to read more]