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40 days – 40 hikes – Walking 4 Education Children must be taught how to think, not what to think ~ Margaret Mead There was a slight change to the programme following the Big 5 Hike which had resulted in a set of rather stiff knees and so we opted for something easy and level,

40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of man. ~ Horace Mann The Big 5 is a hike that goes along the skyline of the mountains surrounding the Cavern Farm, to the top of 5 peaks. It

40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. – Albert Einstein It may be Autumn and it is the month of

40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education on May Day Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the

40 Days – 40 Hikes – Walking 4 Education It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ~ Confucius We were a bit late getting going but managed to head off just before 9. We headed up past Cowslip Falls, Pascoe’s Pool on to the top of Surprise

40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world’s work, and the power to appreciate life. ― Brigham Young Another great day to escape the office and head into the outdoors. We travelled across to the Amazizi Village for our

40 days – 40 hikes – Walking 4 Education Education is the movement from darkness to light . ~ Allan Bloom Temperatures had dropped a little but we awoke to clear skies. We met our hikers on the front lawn, handed out the lunch packs, and began our walk through the Fern Forest, along Bushbuck

40 Days ~ 40 Hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Here’s to 20 years of Democracy! A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special. ~ Nelson Mandela We rose bright and early to do our Sunday

40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. ~ W.B. Yeats This morning we joined the walk to Jackal Hill and the Silent Woman. This is a lovely, relatively easy walk through the Fern Forest and then along Bushbuck Ridge

40 days ~ 40 hikes ~ Walking 4 Education The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ~ C.S. Lewis We woke to a bright and sunny start at Thendele and the mountain was so close. There can’t be many places where you wake up in absolute