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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?'
Athens
existentialism
Abraham Lincoln
idealist value theory
2. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Plato
Xenophon
normative philosophy of education
Zeno
3. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
virtue
up
Republic
idealist value theory
4. Knowledge most worth having
self-knowledge
Protagoras
Aristotle
flute
5. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
xenophon
Naturalist aim of education
Plato's division of human decisions
ethics
6. Demonstrated in 1988 that standard text of higher education is mainly the work of western civilization
linguistic descriptions
postmodernism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
Stanford University Students
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
Justice and meritocracy
value neutrality
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
Great defect in modern education
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
Politics
Republic
confidence
Thomistic realism
9. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Thoreau
Socrates
Outmoded
Individual Christian mind
10. Kant's general form of moral law
Justice and meritocracy
empiricism
Experimentalist aesthetics
categorical imperative
11. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
virtue
Neo-Platonism
12. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
practical side (CDE pattern)
ages that Trivium should be used
Laws
Zeno
13. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Experimentalist view of education
philosophy as a subject matter
philosophical world and life view - educational philosophy - educational policy - educational practice
14. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
actuality
normative philosophy of education
15. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
controlled transaction
Canon
Strict neutrality
16. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters
Plato
Experimentalist aesthetics
Criticism of existentialism
analysis
17. 1600s; get to truth through science
metaphysics
Stanford University Students
Golden Mean and habit
modernity
18. Aspect which makes something tangible
matter
Criticism of existentialism
Naturalist aim of education
Plato and the arts
19. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
existentialist aesthetics
Plato's division of human decisions
existentialism
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
postmodernist theory of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
Epicurus
criticism of latin
21. Nature of any given thing
controlled transaction
multiculturalism
Essence
form
22. Concept of the beautiful
aesthetics
Protestant Reformation
only adequate education
ages that Trivium should be used
23. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable
empirical analytics
Protagoras
liberal learning
existentialist view of education
24. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?
reader-response theory
John Dewey
xenophon
Isocrates
25. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively
particularism
descriptive
Nicomachean Ethics
Athens
26. Technology is not always a __________.
Blessing
a healthy Christian theism
existentialism
Peterson
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
Criticism of existentialism
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
postmodernist theory of education
idealist value theory
28. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
socratic method
practical issues
Herodotus
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
29. Orator; says that character is essential for the educated person
actuality
Pluralism
Isocrates
Plato
30. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
religious zealots
California and Texas
mirror of society and critic of society
31. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object
synthetic
aesthetics
practical issues
existentialist aesthetics
32. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
vocational training
practical issues
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
education - purificaton - and intellectual enjoyment
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
Socratic method
hallmark of liberal arts education
Abraham Joshua Heschel
descriptive
34. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
Panathenaicus
critique of great texts of western world
synthetic
famous attack of medievals
35. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
Peterson
postermodernist literary ideas
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
epitome of postmodern person
36. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
truth from narratives and story-telling
ages that Trivium should be used
ordinary language analysis
Epicurus
37. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position
philosophy as a subject matter
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
only adequate education
general education
38. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
Great defect in modern education
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
legitimate forms for shaping behavior
noetic powers
39. It is a dead language
Key elements of Greek education
state
criticism of latin
Socratic method
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;
postmodernism
ethics and aesthetics
undergraduate schools
liberal education and career training
41. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Hindu Patheism
Materialism
axiology
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
vocational training
liberal learning
normative philosophy of education
Antidosis
43. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
pragmatism
philosophical idealist
liberation to truth
arete
44. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
goal of liberal education
sauromatides
general education
in the home
45. If schools exist solely to package and arrange data - then they may well become _______ by new technology.
Euthydemus
Liberally educated person
ages that Trivium should be used
Outmoded
46. All knowledge is derived from the senses
analytic philosophy
empiricism
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
Hellenica
47. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Neo-Platonism
Individual Christian mind
Sir Francis Bacon
X Generation
48. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion
Materialism
matter
cognitive
First Amendment activists
49. Quintessential educated medieval person
scholastic
Pluralism
pure secularism
Monkey Trial
50. Recommend condition child to his/her social role
socialization theories
metaphysics
Outmoded
Hindu Patheism