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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it






2. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






3. Emphasizes knowing what's right and wrong and putting action to it






4. Experimentalist students are to be both:






5. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






6. 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






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






8. Use women more as slaves






9. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






10. World is permeated by divine essence






11. Who gets to choose what type of education students recieve?






12. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth






13. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






15. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






16. 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






17. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning

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18. No God






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






20. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value






21. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist






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






23. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






24. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






25. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






26. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






27. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related






28. Aspect which makes something tangible






29. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






30. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






31. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






32. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises






33. Academic freedom does not mean _______






34. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






35. What was created to protect academic freedom?






36. 1. Material 2. Efficient 3. Formal 4. Final ; for example - a statue; material: made of marble; efficient: someone had to create it; formal: what the statue is of - idealistic element; final: it's ultimate reason for existence






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






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

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






40. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






41. 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






42. 'What is good?'






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






44. Started naturalism






45. General ideas about education and their logical implications






46. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text






47. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






48. 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






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






50. Kant's general form of moral law