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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry
Thracians
sauromatides
cognitive
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
2. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise
cognitive
reason for sending child to public school
criticism of latin
Nicomachean Ethics
3. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
Aristotle
Protestant Reformation
general education
4. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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5. Most famous multiculturalist project
Epicurus
critique of great texts of western world
reason
analytic philosophy
6. What medievals focused on
general education
empirical analytics
Essence
revelation
7. Leisure is better than occupation and the first principle of all action is leisure; we ought not to be amusing ourselves all the time - for then amusement would be the end of life - amusement is for the sake of relaxation
subjective idealism
difference between leisure and amusement
pragmatism
multiculturalism
8. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
California and Texas
sole true end of education
Middle Ages
Tolkein approach
9. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste
ideal language analysis
mirror of society and critic of society
Abraham Joshua Heschel
idealist value theory
10. It is a dead language
criticism of latin
Sophists
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
subjective idealism
11. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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12. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process
analysis
cultural literacy
Blessing
Sigmund Freud
13. 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
Isocrates
Euthydemus
difference between leisure and amusement
self-knowledge
14. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Canon
state
Panathenaicus
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
15. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
happiness
theistic wing of existentialism
Isocrates
preciseness
16. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things
philosophical idealist
only adequate education
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
Arabasis
17. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?
Individual Christian mind
virtue
Thoreau
rejected
18. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
Socratic method
Athens
undergraduate schools
X Generation
19. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'
Euthydemus
Plato
theistic wing of existentialism
idealist metaphysics
20. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects
Athens
Order of Trivium
idealist metaphysics
'lost tools of medieval scholasticism'
21. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?
Experimentalist values
pragmatism
Tenure
Cosmic dualism
22. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends
Trivium and Quadrivium
Theology
Sparta
Arabasis
23. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
subjective idealism
hubris
Politics
Aristotle
24. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
up
idealist metaphysics
Abraham Joshua Heschel
subjective idealism
25. What do Americans have the most of in education?
confidence
Integrated Education
Theology
goal of liberal education
26. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
Hellenica
xenophon
mirror of society and critic of society
Tolkein approach
27. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
conceptual mapping
Herodotus
Neo-Platonism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
28. 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
embrace them intellectually
Socratic method
Integrated Education
philosophy as a subject matter
29. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
socratic method
Athens
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
John Dewey
30. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times
postmodernity
metaphysics
Athens and Sparta
Sophists
31. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
vocational training
liberal education and career training
Amish
32. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
Against the Sophists
Pluralism
liberal education and career training
Socratic method
33. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves
rhetoric
Panathenaicus
revelation
religious zealots
34. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?
Against the Sophists
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
complete moral education
Thomistic realism
35. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education
difference between leisure and amusement
goal of liberal education
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Integrated Education
36. Learning is...
active
truth from narratives and story-telling
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Against the Sophists
37. Aspect which makes something intelligible to the mind
tradition of liberal arts education
reader-response theory
Monkey Trial
form
38. 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;
idealist value theory
postmodernism
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Sir Francis Bacon
39. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life
ages that Trivium should be used
potentiality
experiential
Athens
40. Nature of any given thing
Essence
theoretical issues
metaphysics
confidence
41. Use women more as slaves
maturational theories
idealist theory of education
Thomistic realism
Thracians
42. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted
Protagorean rationale for general education
California and Texas
criticism of latin
trivium
43. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre
dogmatic theory
socratic method
existentialism
aesthetics
44. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
Aristotle
hubris
First Amendment activists
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
45. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
arete
goal of empiricism
logic
46. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
philosophy of education
Abraham Lincoln
critique of great texts of western world
47. A specific body of info every American should know
mirror of society and critic of society
linguistic descriptions
cultural literacy
flute
48. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences
Cosmic dualism
Zeno
practical issues
Pluralism
49. World is an emanation of God's own being
Athens
Neo-Platonism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
ethics
50. Aspect which makes something tangible
Isocrates
liberal education and career training
matter
Euthydemus