system of education into which the Welsh secondary grammar schools could be fitted, and the aims of their founders were strictly utilitarian (though the primary schools of Wales might well have found their pattern in the Welsh Sunday School). Today, however, we would do well to concentrate our attention, not so much on criticising past and current practice from the vantage ground of unmerited superiority but rather on asking ourselves whether our wider opportunities have brought us a correspondingly clearer vision through this intricate problem. Can we in fact today say that the Welsh secondary schools are, in their aims and methods, moving substantially away from the imitative and traditional ways and that they are fitting themselves for the task of safeguarding the birthright of Welsh children without neglecting their obligation to equip them for the demands of the modern world? As secondary education is being extended to all this pamphlet has been written to state the problem, to suggest possible solutions and to invite further endeavour.
APPENDIX
Selected Figures relating to the position of Welsh in all the secondary grammar schools of Wales in April 1946
| A. (i) No. of schools where Welsh was not an alternative to any subject, but where all, or practically all, pupils took it to the S.C. stage. | 11 (in Welsh-speaking districts) |
| 3 (in Anglicised areas) | |
| (ii) No. of schools with a French/Welsh alternative throughout. | 18 |
| (iii) No. of schools where Welsh was an alternative to some other subject (usually French) after the first year. | 37 |
| (iv) No. of schools where Welsh was an alternative to some other subject (usually French) after the first two years. | 23 |
| (v) No. of schools which stated that Welsh was optional. | 8 |
| (vi) No. of schools where no Welsh was taught. | 24 |
| (vii) Unclassified | 28 |
