James Martin Hogan is primarily known as co-founder of the worldwide

Outward Bound Outward Bound (OB) is an international network of outdoor education organizations that was founded in the United Kingdom by Lawrence Holt and Kurt Hahn in 1941. Today there are organizations, called schools, in over 35 countries which are att ...

movement of outdoor adventure education schools, along with

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and Lawrence Durning Holt, having been the first warden of the sea school - the first Outward Bound school - established in

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, Wales by Holt to train crews of his

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. Hogan has been credited with choosing the now-famous Outward Bound motto: "To serve, to strive, and not to yield." Hogan was a Boy Scout leader and

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holder.James Martin Hogan and Outward Bound should not be confused with Irish science fiction writer James Patrick Hogan (1941-2010) and his science fiction novel ''Outward Bound'' (1999).

References

Bibliography

* Hogan, James Martin, ''Impelled Into Experiences: the story of the Outward Bound schools'', Educational Productions, 1968. . . * Richards, Anthony, ''The Genesis of Outward Bound''

* Wagstaff, Mark, ''A History of Challenge Courses''

* Zelinski, Mark, 1991, ''Outward Bound: The Inward Odyssey'', Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words. Outdoor educators Year of birth missing Place of birth missing Nationality missing People from Aberdyfi {{edu-org-stub