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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






2. 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






3. No God






4. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






5. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






6. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training






7. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous






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

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9. Father of History






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






11. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger






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






13. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






14. What Greeks mostly focused on






15. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?






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






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






18. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions






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






20. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought






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






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






23. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






24. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






25. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






26. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






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






28. 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






29. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects






30. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible






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

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32. 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






33. 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






34. World is permeated by divine essence






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






36. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






37. 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






38. List of works that have always been studied






39. 1. Learn a language 2. Learn how to use a language 3. learn how to express oneself in language 4. compose thesis upon a theme and defend it against the criticism of the faculty






40. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?






41. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






42. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






43. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






44. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






45. 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






46. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






47. Categories of philosophy as an activity






48. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this






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






50. Emphasizes increasingly complex patterns of moral reasoning through which child advances