DRILL IS BAD.
BADEN POWELL'S VIEW. INDIVIDTJALITY LOST IF BOY IS PART OF MACHINE. By, Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received November 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. Major-General Baden-Powei!, in a letter to the press, says that the Boy Soouta movement is unable to conscientiously participate in Sir R. Lucasm. x\ i f ... t It is not thought desirable to inculcate ideas of soldiering beyond selfdefence into boys before they are able to see things in their proper proportions. Cadet equipment is too expensive for the poorest, to whom the Scout movement specially devotes attention. Drill tonds to destroy the boys' individuality and make them part of a machine, and dependent upon others.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10927, 17 November 1913, Page 5
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