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THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH AND…
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THE BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH AND THE RIGHT OF THE PARENT. A public meeting, held under the auspices of the Denbighshire County Association of the National Union of Teachers at Denbigh, on Saturday, was presided over by the Bishop of St. Asaph. The Bishop, in his address as chairman, said elementary education was not at present a dull subject, at any rate in Wales. It was to be hoped that the interest which now attached to the political aspect might not injure the efficiency of the practical side of educational work. Dealing for a moment with the first aspect of the question, he observed that Mr. Lloyd-George had taken exception to his statement that there was an element of fierce- ness in the controversies of 1870 which was fortunately absent from those of to-day. Mr. Lloyd-George's own speech by its good humour and kindly tone was the best proof of his state- ment and the best reply to his own criticism. Two years ago he hoped that the present controversy might have been averted, but the prophesy which a prominent English states- man made to him at that time now awaited its inevitable fulfilment, and he feared the solution of the question must once more be fought out in Parliament. It was obvious, but superficial, to bemoan this controversy, but it must not be forgotten that some people's feelings had first to be aroused before their minds could be educated, and the country was at present passing through that educational process. He awaited the result without fear. While the State and the denominations had been at issue as to the form of faith to be taught the child, at last they were beginning to recognise that only one person had the right to decide this question, and that was the parent, and in making this decision the parent must have freedom. If there was to be freedom, it must be freedom all round, legally sanctioned and secured. If the parents were to be free to provide religious instruction for their own children at the cost of their own denomination there must be freedom for the giving of that instruction. There was no such freedom if that instruction was given outside school hours, not even if by an accommodating legerdermain the school hours were dodged about so as to make them look like school hours when they were not school hours. Alluding to an observation as to there being seventy schools in the county where there were tests applied, the Bishop said: There is a legal test and a test which is not legal, but which is very rigidly exacted. No doubt there are denominational schools where there is a legal test. We will not discuss that further, though it may be desirable in the interests of education that that question should be faced. But if you remove that legal test to-morrow you do not remove all tests. In the intermediate schools have you not heard of one denomination getting a head master and seeing that everybody is of the some colour ? Is not that a test, and is it not applied rigidly by one denomination ? I know what my facts are, and there is a legal test and a test not legal which can be enforced most rigidly and often most unfairly. You must face the question of tests in a broad spirit and look at it all round. The solution of the problem would have to be on a give-and-take basis, and the man who would not help to bring it about was the man who approached it in the spirit of the old Glamorganshire proverb, All for me and the rest for Johnny." References that had been made to the children reminded him of Coleridge's remark, What a melancholy world this would be without a child, and what an inhuman world it would be without old people."
CARDIFF AND WELSH NATIONALISM.
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CARDIFF AND WELSH NATIONALISM. Another stage in the many-phased attempt to win Cardiff over completely for Welsh Nationalism was reached last week. After a long discussion a sub-committee of the Cardiff Education Committee unanimously resolved to recommend that body to approve the draft scheme and agreement for the constitution of a Welsh National Council. Carmarthenshire is now the only education authority in Wales which is not pledged to this scheme, which when en- forced will supplant the Central Welsh Board. Another sub-committee considered the recent plebiscite taken in Cardiff on the teaching of Welsh in the schools, when 8,456 parents voted for, and 10,791 voted against, including the subject in the schools curricula. The Board's Inspector (Mr. J. V. Evans), reporting on the subject, declared that the optional plan tried by the late Cardiff School Board had proved a constant source of disorganisation in the schools, and strongly urged the Committee to make the subject compulsory in all the classes. The sub-committee, over which Mr. Carey, an Irish Roman Catholic, presided, resolved to recom- mend the Education Committee to begin by making the subject compulsory in Standard I. in all the Council and non-provided schools, and to supplement the executive staff by the appointment of peripatetic teachers competent to teach Welsh. The subjects to be dropped to make room for Welsh may be drawing (including brush-drawing) and history in the girls' schools, and object-lessons (elementary science, nature study, &c.), and history in the boys' schools, but English historical readers will be retained, and the present arrangement for the optional teaching of Welsh in Standards II. and upwards will not be interfered with.
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ONE of the Cardiganshire delegates attending the Welsh Campaign Committee at Shrewsbury recently relates a good joke. He was walking up and down the hotel corridor looking for the committee-room, when a Swiss waiter, noting his perplexity, offered to help him. This way," said the foreigner, "to the Velsh champagne room
Byd y (Ian.
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Byd y (Ian. Cian IDRIS. WELE ni yn awr yn dechreu ar y tymhor cerddorol! Daw y newydd o'r Almaen a Ffrainc a gwledydd ereill fod argoelion am fwy o gerdd- oriaeth dda ac aruchel eleni nag a fu erioed. Edrycher ar unrhyw adran a fynir-y cysegr, yr oratorio, yr opera, neu'r cyngherdd—a chan- fyddir arwyddion diwylliant. DA genym weled ein cyfeillion yn yr Hen Wlad yn symud gyda'u corau, gan drefnu i ddysgu cyfanweithiau i'w perfformio. Brysied y dydd pan y gallant gynhal gwyliau cerddorol tebyg i'r rhai a gynhelir gan y Saeson, ac y bydd David Jenkins, Wilfrid Jones, Harry Evans, Dr. Rogers ac eraill, i Gymru, yr hyn ydyw Mr. Henry J. Wood, Dr. Cowen, Syr Frederick Bridge ac ereill i Loegr. WRTH son am symud ymlaen fel hyn arweinir ni ar unwaith i ofyn beth ydym ni Gymry y Brifddinas yn ei wneyd yn yr ystyr gerddorol ? Gwir fod genym gor meibion rhagorol, a chor merched hefyd o ran hynny; ond a wneir mwy drwyddynt nag a wnaed genym ddeng mlynedd a mwy yn ol ? Feallai fod rhywun yn barod i ddweyd na wneir cymaint Onid oes modd ein tanio fel cenedl gerddorol i ddigon o frwd- frydedd i ail-gychwyn. y Gymdeithas Gerddorol a sefydlwyd genym beth amser ol. Y MAE'N resyn gadael i'r gwaith a wnaed yn y mudiad gan Mr. R. O. Jones, Pedr Alaw ac ereill fyned yn ofer. Bydded i ni ymddeffroi Ac fe ganiata y Golygydd i ni wahodd barn y Cymry cerddgar ar y mater hwn. Hoffem wybod a oes awydd yn ein mysg i ffurfio Cym- deithas Gerddorol Gymreig sefydlog. Nos Iau nesaf, sef y 12fed, gwna un o efryd- wyr mwyaf addawol y Royal Academy ei "debut" (chwedl y Sais) ar lwyfan Cyngherddau y Promenade, a chan ei fod yn un o'n cydwlad- wyr, a bod llawer o'r llygaid beirniadol yn ysu am roddi eu llinyn mesur arno, yr ydym yn lied gredu y daw yn boblogaidd yn fuan iawn. Y mae ein dyddordeb yn yr efrydydd hwn yn ddeublyg, oherwydd mai Cymro ydyw ei athraw yn y coleg, sef Mr. Ffrangcon Davies. AR yr un noson cynhelir cyngherdd mewn cysylltiad a Chapel Charing Cross Road, fel y gwelir mewn colofn arall, pryd y cymerir rhan gan rai enwog ym myd y gan. CAED swn udgyrn yn y Palas Grisial ddydd Sadwrn diweddaf, a chaed prawf eglur fod y seindyrf pres yn cynyddu'n fawr. Seindorf Irwel Springs, o swydd Lancaster, aeth a'r gwpan. Da oedd gweled cynnifer o seindyrf o Gymru yno.
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MR. LLOYD-GEORGE ON THE EDUCATION…
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Referring to an article in the Times in which it was stated that Wales was greedy in regard to Education, he said the first thing that would happen if they took over the Church schools would be that they would have to pay some sort of rent for the buildings, and in order to enjoy true equality and fair play they would pay for what they were getting now for nothing on humiliating and insulting terms. Was that greed ? Where was the greed of Wales in education ? It was very greedy. It wanted more. There was no end to the covetousness of Wales for education. It wanted the humblest child in its ranks to have all the educational facilities that the combined wealth of the community could give it. In Wales Education was not the prize of the rich. Theirs was a land where they had built colleges and secondary schools-who for and who by ? The people. Let the Times name a land in this Empire about which it could be said that the working men who had not contributed something towards secondary schools and colleges were in a minority in it. Let them name the land, and he would name a land where they were in a majority, and that was the land of their fathers. They were paying more per head of the population for education than even intelligent, self-sacrificing Scotland, and no country in the Empire, with, possibly, the exception of Ireland, had a democracy which had sacrificed so much to public purposes. In conclusion, he said that if the Bishop of St. Asaph only wanted, as he said he did, freedom for men of all faiths, for the parent of every child, be he rich or poor, to have the right to teach his own faith, and that the denomination to which the parent belonged was to pay for the teaching, they were all agreed, and he trusted that in the Bill of the next Liberal Government those three principles of the Bishop of St. Asaph would be embodied. All they wanted was freedom and fair play, not only for the Church but for the religion that picked Wales out of the gutter.