Brenda Almond was responsible for teaching the philosophy of education when I was a student at Brighton College of Education. In a letter to my then boyfriend, I recall writing: “I’m giving a paper on Plato tomorrow and I don’t understand him. I don’t like philosophy.”
After the event I wrote: “I suppose philosophy isn’t so bad really.” My subsequent career was spent in infants’ schools as a music specialist, while Brenda went on to become professor of social and moral philosophy at Hull University.
