資料：1923年4月4日《The Hong Kong Telegraph》第2頁
BOY SCOUTS JAMBOREE.
Scouting as an Educational Training.
Hongkong’s Boy Scouts are to have a Jamboree at the City Hall on the 13th and 14th inst., at which demonstrations in Scoutcraft will be given.
The value of this movement is widely acknowledged. Viewing educational training merely from the viewpoint of the acquisition of knowledge, it must be admitted that there is much in a boy’s life left untouched by the formal lessons given in a classroom. The Boy Scout organization supplies this need. Its aim is the development of good citizenship among boys by individual character training in resourcefulness, observation, obedience, and self-reliance; by inculcating loyalty and thoughtfulness for others; by teaching them services useful to the public, and handicrafts useful to themselves; and by promoting their physical development and hygiene.
Scout training takes the individual boy, and through attractions of organization, activities, and awards devised for the purpose, it urges him to develop himself in the four directions towards citizenship given above. It endeavours to supply training rather than teaching, education rather than instruction, character rather than knowledge, active self-education instead of passive reception of ideas.
Many schoolmasters have taken up scouting for their boys to help their character training and discipline, and have found it is a splendid method of training. It makes the acquisition of knowledge a living process.
Lord Rosebery has said: “Schoolmasters ought to be interested for their own benefit in the Boy Scouts. If they can get the influence that the Boy Scout movement gives the Scoutmaster, if they can get that influence over their boys in playtime, that at present some of them only have in school time, surely they will have an incalculable reward in the formation of the character of their pupils, far the most important education they can impart.”
翻譯：
童子軍大會
童軍運動的教育作用
香港童子軍將於本月13日至14日，假座大會堂舉行童軍大會，屆時將進行各種童軍技能示範。
童軍運動的價值一直受廣泛認同。單從獲取知識的角度來看教育制度，無可否認很多知識都在課堂未有觸及。童子軍組織就正好填補了這個空洞，透過建立靈活多變、善於觀察、服從及主張自力更生的人格培訓；培養對人忠誠、為他人著想的精神；學習為公眾服務的能力、為自身帶來生活的技能；促進孩童的成長及健康發展。其目的就是培養小童成為良好公民。
童軍訓練主要透過團隊、活動及獎勵，吸引孩童自身藉著上述四個方向發展，並引導成為良好公民。其方法不是著重課堂教學，而是著重實習訓練；不是著重訓令，而是著重培育；不是著重灌輸知識，而是著重培養人格；不是被動接收知識，而是主動學習知識。
多所學校的校長皆引入童軍運動以培訓學童建立良好品格及自律行為，他們都發現這是一個極好的訓練方式，其方式使學習知識變得更為生動有趣。
羅斯伯里勳爵(Lord Rosebery)曾說：「校長們如為自己著想，應關注童子軍運動。如童子軍運動可有效引導旅長(Scoutmaster)，而他們又不止於上課時間，亦於課餘時間引導小童，相信可為各小童的人格培養帶來無法估量的龐大回報，其影響力更甚於教育制度之所能及。」