The Scoutmaster's first job is to help boy leaders make the PATROL METHOD work.

"The patrol method is not a way to operate a Boy Scout troop. it is the only way. Unless the patrol method is in operation, you don't really have a Boy Scout troop."

---Robert S.S. Baden-Powell

"The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy."

---Robert S.S. Baden-Powell