Cyn imi wneud hyn, hoffwn edrych am ychydig ar yr hyn y gallwn ei ddysgu o fywyd Aneurin Bevan a’i brofiad ef o Addysg. Mewn gwirionedd, nid oedd ei brofiad o addysg ffurfiol – ar adeg wahanol iawn wrth gwrs – yn gadarnhaol iawn. Yng ngeiriau Michael Foot, roedd yn ‘casáu'r ysgol â chas perffaith’. Yn Ysgol Elfennol Sirhywi, cafodd ei fwlio gan neb llai na’r Pennaeth a dywedodd Foot ac un o’i gofianwyr eraill, Nick Thomas-Syrmonds, y gallai hyn fod wedi cyfrannu at yr atal dweud y bu’n dioddef ohono am weddill ei oes.
Before I do this, I want to reflect briefly on what we can draw from the life of aneurin bevan and his experience of education. In truth his experience of formal education – in very different times of course – was not very positive. In Michael Foot’s words he ‘hated school with an abiding hatred’. At Sirhowy Elementary School he experienced bullying by no less than the headteacher and both Foot and one of his other biographers, Nick Thomas-Symonds, speculate that this may have contributed to the stammer that he struggled with for the rest of his life.