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Reports of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State of Education in Wales

Part 3: North Wales, comprising Anglesey, Carnarvon, Denbigh, Flint, Meirioneth and Montgomery

TITLE PAGE

• STATE OF EDUCATION AMONG CHILDREN

Number of Schools and Scholars, compared with extent of several counties and density of inhabitants; Origin and classification of Schools; Date of establishment; Professed object

• The School Buildings, their Furniture and Apparatus

School-rooms, number and capacity compared with demand for Education; Miscellaneous buildings, description of; Precarious tenure; Apparatus insufficient; Books ill selected; Materials for teaching English

• The Teachers, and their Method of Instruction

Income of teachers; Class from which taken; Sex; Age; Physical condition; Collateral employments; Qualifications: first, intellectual, knowledge of the English language; Methods adopted for secular English; Reading; Writing; Arithmetic; Higher secular subjects; Holy Scripture; Catechisms; Secondly, moral qualifications: discipline and general moral influence; Methids of punishment; Specific training of Teachers; Object of Normal Schools misunderstood

• The Visitors; Government and Organization of Schools

Individual instruction; Monitorial, effects of; Simultaneous; Inspection, neglect of; Results; Abstract of Schools in abeyance; Defective inspection; Promoters uneducated; or misapprehend the Education required

• The Scholars and their Proficiency

Number of Scholars; Average daily attendance; Sex; comparative Education of Males and Females; Age of prevailing Education; Pupils between 10 and 15 years; Age of least Education; Infant Schools; Duration of attendance; Distance of Scholars from school; Inferences; Attainments of Scholars classified; Results of Examination of 19,521 Scholars in all subjects professed; Knowledge chiefly Religious; Extent illustrated; Varies inversely with repetition of Catechisms; Fundamental error in Welsh Education

• Causes of Defective Education

School Funds; Imperfectly distributed; First, Endowments: breaches of trust; Schools in abeyance; Or useless; Madam Beavan's Locomotive Schools; Secondly, Benefactions of rich and payments of poor applied to maintain conflicting Schools; Fatal results of social division

• MEANS OF EDUCATION FOR ADULTS

First, Secular Instruction; Night Schools; Mechnics' Institutes; Reading Rooms; Circulating Libraries; Secondly, Religious Instruction; Sunday Schools, statistics of; Nature and object; Course of proceeding in

• RESULTS: GENERAL INTELLIGENCE AND CIVILIZATION

Results of present system; Imperfect civilization; First, in language; Literature; And general intelligence of the people; Farmers; Tradesmen; Sailors; Quarrymen; Secondly, in social and moral condition of agricultural counties; Towns; Carnarvonshire quarries; Mining districts on English border; And manufacturing towns of Montgomeryshire; The besetting vice of North Wales

APPENDIX

• Minutes of Evidence respecting the parishes, and the Schools provided for the poor, in the Six Counties of North Wales, alphabetically arranged
• Tabular Report of Day Schools
• Tables of Sunday Schools
• Table of Night Schools for Adults
• Table of Parishes in which English is spoken, with the Number and Proportion of Inhabitants habitally speaking English
• Welsh Literature
  1. Welsh Periodicals circulated in North Wales
  2. Extinct Welsh Periodicals
  3. Books in the Welsh Language printed or read in North Wales
  4. Note on the influence of Eisteddvods upon Welsh Literature and Civilization
• Specimens of the Errors in Welsh and English Orthography, occurring in returns made by the Superintendents of Sunday Schools in North Wales
• Letters and Memorials
  • On the want of Secular Education in North Wales
  • On the prevalence of Bastardy in Anglesey, as a consequence of defective Education
  • On the Endowed Grammar Schools in North Wales which have fallen into decay, and the expediency of engrafting Normal Schools upon such foundations
  • On the necessity for an improved system of Books, in order to teach Welsh Pupils the English language
  • On the want of Education in certain parishes in the County of Montgomery