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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'






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






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






4. Knowledge most worth having






5. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment






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






7. Who one's parents are; Plato says in the Republic to eliminate parenthood to get exact same chance to become philosopher king - military - or provider






8. 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






9. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






10. Kant's general form of moral law






11. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable






12. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






13. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions






14. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






15. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'






16. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






17. 1600s; get to truth through science






18. Aspect which makes something tangible






19. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






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






21. Nature of any given thing






22. Concept of the beautiful






23. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






24. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






25. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






26. Technology is not always a __________.






27. Excessive individualism - non-objective morality - and extreme forms of self-expression - makes faith out to be based not at all on fact or reason






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






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






30. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






31. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






32. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






33. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






34. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






35. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor






36. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






37. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position






38. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






39. It is a dead language






40. Friedrich Nietzche; asserts radical views; exposes and discards notion of independent - external - stable reality; denies that we can make secure cognitive contact with the world at all; no truer or better interpretations - only more persuasive ones;






41. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






42. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand






43. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






44. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






45. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.






46. All knowledge is derived from the senses






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






48. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






49. Quintessential educated medieval person






50. Recommend condition child to his/her social role