This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...Mr. Owen declares in his opening statement, 'is the means of bridging over the chasm that separates the elementary school from the higher-grade school, and in some instances of preparing them to compete for the prizes offered in colleges and universities.' For the means of doing this Mr. Hugh Owen looked, partly, to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...Mr. Owen declares in his opening statement, 'is the means of bridging over the chasm that separates the elementary school from the higher-grade school, and in some instances of preparing them to compete for the prizes offered in colleges and universities.' For the means of doing this Mr. Hugh Owen looked, partly, to 'subscriptions from the children themselves, ' and partly tionat the time, was entitled ' The Educational Wants of Wales, ' by Mr. (now Sir) T. Marchant Williams--a pamphlet which contained, among other things, a vigorous criticism of some of Bishop Lloyd's proposals.--as he had done in all his previous enterprises--to the voluntary support of the people. 'It accords, ' he says, 'with the habits of the Welsh people to depend, in great measure, upon themselves to secure the advantages which they feel the need of. They do not, as a rule, look to others to do for them what they can do for themselves. I cherish much confidence that this source is one that may safely be relied on.' The result of his appeal was the formation of the North Wales Scholarship Association, to which, up to the time of its dissolution in 1889, over 3,000 was contributed from voluntary sources, thus affording, on a modest scale, another instance of Welsh popular zeal and liberality in an educational cause. The increasing demand for higher-grade schools, together with the urgent need of securing a Treasury grant in aid of the University College at Aberystwyth, led at last to a discussion in Parliament on the educational situation in Wales. On July 1,1879, Mr. Hussey Vivian moved in the House of Commons 'that, in the opinion of this House, it is the duty of the Government to consider the best means of assisting any local effort which may be made for supplying the deficiency .
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