From its beginnings with the first Scout camp on the island of Brownsea, in 1907, under the leadership of Robert Baden-Powell, in its more than one hundred years of survival, scouting has expanded to more than 50 million Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts worldwide. In Slovenia, it had to overcome several difficult obstacles. Today, the number of active members of the Association of Slovenian Catholic Girl Guides and Boy Scouts (ZSKSS) has already exceeded the number of five thousand. The symbolic language is in the ZSKSS used as an educational tool, which awakens a sense of belonging in its members. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts use the symbols for their own purposes, mostly within the organization. Since the symbols represent an open field of meanings, they can easily be misunderstood. This is also the reason why some Scouts do not dare to go on the street with their scout uniform. Thus, the understanding of Scout symbolism needs to be seen from two angles: from the scout's eyes and from the eyes of a non-scout. Precisely because of any possible misunderstandings of the symbolism used by scouts, we must be aware of what, or who we are representing with them. If we want the scout symbols to be seen in public as we see them, we must be scouts every minute of the day. Not only when we wear a scout uniform, or when we are together at a meeting or an event, but also at home, with friends, with family. If people realize the deeper meaning that scout symbolism represents, they will finally be able to know why and how we actually do what we are doing. We are educating young people towards full physical, mental, spiritual and social development so that they can become solid personalities, responsible citizens and members of local, national and international communities. And the language of symbols helps us doing it.
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