Few literary
or scientific works are translated into Welsh. Hence the great
educational difficulty continues, and is maintained from year to
year by patriotism and Eisteddfods.
Possibly the difficulties to be encountered may occasionally
evoke unusual powers of study; but this can only occur in
exceptional cases. While at Bangor Mr. Cadwalladr Davies read to
me the letter of a student and professor, whose passion for
knowledge is of an extraordinary character. While examined
before the Parliamentary Committee appointed to inquire into the
condition of intermediate and higher education in Wales and
Monmouthshire, Mr. Davies gave evidence relating to this and
other remarkable cases, of which the following is an abstract,
condensed by himself:--
"The night schools in the quarry districts have been doing a very
great work; and, if the Committee will allow me, I will read an
extract from a letter which I received from Mr. Bradley Jones,
master of the Board Schools at Llanarmon, near Mold, Flintshire,
who some years ago kept a very flourishing night school in the
neighbourhood. He says: 'During the whole of the time (fourteen
years) that I was at Carneddi, I carried on these schools, and I
believe I have had more experience of such institutions than any
teacher in North Wales. For several years about 120 scholars
used to attend the Carneddi night school in the winter months,
four evenings a week.
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