I WAS heartened to read Susan Senior’s letter in response to my earlier one. I thought I was the only person in South Wales who thought we were going in the wrong direction educationally. 

Like her, I am not against the Welsh Language but strongly for the advancement of the people of Wales. The future will depend heavily on technology, and I ask if being forced to spend so many hours learning Welsh will help our children and grandchildren write one line of computer code? Will it help them read and absorb necessary international technical information and help communicate with overseas technical people? 

I think we know the answer. We have the intelligence. We have the inventiveness. So with a forward looking education system we could, in ten years or so, aspire to be another Centre of Technical Excellence similar to Singapore. Or we can have a backward looking education system which will doom our children and grandchildren to the UK’s version of the Rust Belt.

Do the people directing our education system care? They have comfortable jobs in Cardiff and it is in their own interest to keep promoting the Welsh language, whether it is a benefit to Wales or not. 
They will feel they have succeeded as long as the Welsh language is spoken, even if it is only in the unemployment line.  

John Pimley
New Inn
Pontypool