I Meet Robert Stevenson Smith Baden-Powell or simply BP. Born on 22nd of February 1857 in Paddington, London. His father Professor HG Baden-Powell was a vicar and a professor of natural science.
His mother Henrietta Smith was Professor Baden-Powell's third wife. The couple had seven living children together of whom Robert was the fifth and they also raised three children from the Vikar's previous marriage. Since a child, he loved the outdoors and adventure even tracking animals through the woods around his school.
In 1876, Baden-Powell joined the 13th Hussars in India with rank of lieutenant. In 1895, he was in special service in Africa to aid the British South Africa Company. Many of his later Boy Scout ideas took hold during this war. He first wore his signature Stetson hat and scarf during this campaign. Baden-Powell led a successful campaign in Ashanti, Africa.
In 1897, at the age of 40, he was promoted to lead the 5th Dragoon Guards. A few years later, he wrote a small manual entitled, Aids to Scouting. The manual was a summary training because troops did not know basic first aid and how to survive the outdoors.
Baden-Powell enhanced and honed his scouting skills amidst the Zulu tribesmen in the early 1880s in the Nile province of South Africa, where his regiment had been posted. During one of his scouting missions, Baden-Powell came across a large string of wooden beads worn by the Zulu King, Dini Zulu. The beads were later incorporated into the wood batch training program for Boy Scout leaders.
In 1899, during the Second Boer War in South Africa, Baden-Powell successfully defended the town in the siege of Mafeking. A Boer army in excess of 8,000 men surrounded him and his troops. As a result, defending Maffeking in South Africa for 216 days, he returned as a national hero.
Upon his return from military assignment in Africa, Baden-Powell found that his military training manual, Aids to Scouting, had become a bestseller and was being used by teachers and youth organizations. Baden-Powell decided to rewrite Aids to Scouting to suit youth readers. In 1907, he held a camp on Brown Sea Island for 22 boys of mixed social background to test out the applicability of his ideas.
They were set up a small camp so the boys have to live for 12 days. his tests were successful. Ladies and gentlemen, I have been asked to explain to you what the Boys'Child Movement is. It is a tall order to compress into three minutes'talk an ideal that is being followed by over a billion of the hearts of boys. The Movement primarily is a brotherhood of service of boys and men.
Its school of character and citizenship of personal efficiency for the good of the community. This sounds highfalutin'for what is, as we know it, a band of bare-kneed rascals with cowboy hats and spades in their hands. But remember, you cannot give them character through ordinary classroom methods. You have to use other means. The boys are eager to join in a jolly game of brother ship with its healthy camp life and handy pioneer training.
Their moral character is developed by our method of self-government under a code of chivalry in the Scout law. Their spiritual character is developed by their being brought faith to... Scouting for Boys was published in six installments in 1908 and became an instant bestseller. In 1910, at the age of 53, BP retired from the army to devote his life to the Scout Movement.
Two years later, he married Olaf Swans. Together, they had three children, Peter, Heather, and Betty. By 1920, the movement was large enough to hold its first jamboree. Around 8,000 scouts from 34 countries gathered for the first World Scout Jamboree and BP was acclaimed Chief Scout of the World. It's the world.
It's now the world's leading educational youth movement with over 50 million members. Robbery to Success is a live-fire review of the works written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell and published in two editions from June 1922. BP and Lady BP visited Malaya in 1934. They attended the Scout and Guide Rally in Penang, Kuala Kangsa, Castle Camp, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. In 1937, BP retired from public scouting life. In 1939, BP moved to a cottage in Nyeri, Kenya. Today, PAX 2 has transformed into a museum and shelters various objects that are of interest to the Scout Movement.
BP passed away on 8 January 1941 at the age of 83 and was buried in Nyeri, Kenya, in the article Keyblood. But the movement instead goes on. His gravestone bears a symbol, which is the trail sign. exciting it was.
In the army I learnt service, that is, doing your duty without asking the reason why, and being prepared to face danger or even death if need be to carry out your duty. duty. I did a good lot of traveling, which opened my eyes to other countries and other peoples and their ways. I played games and got healthy, and I did exploring and got lots of adventure. Yes, I thoroughly enjoyed my life, and though I had no money, except what I earned by my work.
I got lots of pleasure, but after a time I found there was a difference between pleasure and happiness. You get pleasure by amusing yourself, by going to the cinema, or playing football, or eating a good dinner. Well, that's all pleasure.
But that feeling of pleasure comes to an end when you finish your game or your dinner. Happiness is another thing. It is a joy which lasts with you always. And it comes largely not so much from amusing yourself as from doing good turns which help other people. Eighty years may seem to you a long time, but in all my eighty years, I can't remember a time when I wasn't busy.
And so long as you are busy, you can't help being cheerful. So if ever you find yourself without something to do, remember there are always lots of people wanting help. Old people, or infirm, or poor people, who would be only too glad of a helping hand.
However poor or small-humored, you can always find someone worse off than yourself, either ill or old or crippled. If you go and help them and cheer them up, a funny thing happens. You find that by making others happy, you're making yourself all the happier too. I want you to have as long and jolly a life as I've had, and you can get it if you keep yourself healthy and helpful to others. I'll tell you my secret for this.
I've always tried to carry out the Scout promise and the Scout law in all that I do. If you do that, you will make a success of your life and will have a very happy time, even if you live to be 80, like me. So now I ask you to repeat to yourself with me the Scout promise.
Not like a parrot, but thinking of the meaning of every word as you say it. Now, half salute and whisper after me. Hello, you boy in the corner there.
You ought to be a boy scout. You're a fine looking fella and I know you'd make a jolly good backwoodsman by the look of you. You're ugly enough, ain't it?
And you girl there, no I don't mean you, I mean the pretty one behind you. You ought to be a girl guide, you know. Oh, you are one? Oh, I beg your pardon.
That's quite right. Now go on and tell all your pals to come and be girl guides like you. I'm very glad to see you there.
Thank you all, good luck to you, and I wish you and me meet again.