Boy Scouts

A Boy Scout is a member of a Scouting organization. There are thousands of national Scouting organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Scouting associations with some non-aligned organizations. Many of these use Boy Scouts in their name, including:

  • World Organization of the Scout Movement
    • List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
    • List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members
  • Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d′Europe
  • World Federation of Independent Scouts
  • Order of World Scouts
  • Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
  • List of non-aligned Scouting organizations
  • Many Scouting organizations have a Boy Scouts section, or Scout section, see: Age groups in Scouting and Guiding

Famous quotes containing the words boy and/or scouts:

    He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it—namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain. If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
    The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
    When I see o’er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.

    And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
    their goods;
    And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
    armed men.
    Bertrans De Born (fl. 12th century)