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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






2. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains






3. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person






4. Father of History






5. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






6. Philosophy is both...?






7. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already






8. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






9. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people






10. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?






11. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






12. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






13. What do Americans have the most of in education?






14. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






15. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






16. Music should be studied with a view to what?






17. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?






18. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being






19. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms






20. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers

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21. Academic freedom does not mean _______






22. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste






23. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






24. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






25. Knowledge most worth having






26. 1600s; get to truth through science






27. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






28. Encourages individual choice






29. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






30. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence






31. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






32. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?






33. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative






34. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.






35. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






36. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






37. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia






38. What is a 'DWEM'?






39. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind






40. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






41. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






42. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






43. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






44. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






45. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing






46. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






47. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization






48. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education






49. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






50. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as