Jochen Senft has been a scout since 1974 and has observed his surroundings, reflecting on them throughout his life. The result is: Scouts - ahead of their time. Like many other observers, Jochen Senft sees the lack of relationships as a major social problem of our time. Scouting education can help here because scouting work is relationship work. The foundations for this were laid by Robert Baden-Powell with educational discoveries that were decades ahead of his time, and their significance is being discussed here for the first time.