Fel y dywedais ar y dechrau, mae ein prifysgolion yn ddyledus am eu camau cyntaf i chwyldro addysg o uchelgais dinesig, economaidd ac academaidd. Ceiniogau’r tlodion a ariannodd y camau cyntaf hynny, gyda phunnoedd y dyngarwyr a’r llywodraeth gam ar ei hôl hi.
As I said at the start, our universities owe their first steps to an education revolution of civic, economic and academic ambition. It was the pence of the poor that funded those first steps, with the pounds of philanthropists and government a step behind.