Michael Brett This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. Staff

   www.northcotelodge.co.uk/ourst - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/19/2007   Last Visited: 1/19/2007

   MICHAEL BRETT, Head of English, Form 5N Michael Brett comes from North London. He graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Reading. He then went into the Eurosecurities industry, acting as Soviet specialist for a major Japanese bank. He entered the teaching profession in 1995.

2. 2. www.northcotelodge.co.uk

   www.northcotelodge.co.uk/ourst - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2006   Last Visited: 5/29/2007

   MICHAEL BRETT Head of English

3. 3. Philosophy 4 Skool

   www.the-philosopher.co.uk/phil - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/30/2006   Last Visited: 10/19/2007

   Michael Brett
   
   The Philosophical Society of England has advocated both the use of philosophical material (and, perhaps more importantly, philosophical methods) in schools since the 1930s. When Mr Lipmann was just a lad in short trousers, we were pondering Bernard Youngman's 1952 assessment of the task of a philosophical education, a task he based on Bible study and saw in typically Platonist terms as bringing children towards the light of knowledge of the good. Mind you, he observed: ... In Ecclesiastes there is bitterness and cynicism enough to challenge any adolescent; there is clearly an attitude of sheer materialism, and the writer is devastatingly frank in his statements God, he says, is far away, and not interested in the world or the people in it; He allows evil to flourish all is vanity! Man is just the victim of chance and time. But, he adds, have a good time while the going is good.
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   Michael Brett Head of English Northcote Lodge School,