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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
sauromatides
difference between leisure and amusement
ordinary language analysis
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
2. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Experimentalist view of education
innoculation method
Neil Postman
postmodernity
3. 'Man is the measure of all things'
dialectic
postmodernism
complete moral education
Protagoras
4. Knowledge most worth having
Epistemology
self-knowledge
transcendential idealism
socratic method
5. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
ethics
Zeno
Epicurus
6. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations
experiential
naturalistic cosmotogies
pure secularism
Euthydemus
7. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?
theistic wing of existentialism
Pluralism
Protagorean rationale for general education
Epistemology
8. What is the hallmark of existentialism?
theistic wing of existentialism
Experimentalist aesthetics
collective Christian mind
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
9. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training
Lyceum
synthetic
responsibility theory
normative philosophy of education
10. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
xenophon
active
idealist metaphysics
particularism
11. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing
Golden Mean and habit
hubris
postmodernity
postmodernist aesthetics
12. What is a 'DWEM'?
critique of great texts of western world
liberal education and career training
Quadrivium
Dead White European Male
13. Socrates' ultimate goal
idealist theory of education
philosophy as a subject matter
empirical analytics
virtue
14. More democratic; founder of much more individual freedom than Sparta; picked government positions by lots because of their egalitarian view; did elect people for the position of general; Athenian leadership could be gained through the military; educa
Thomistic realism
Athens
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
philosophical idealist
15. Fails to distinguish between relative and absolute factors in the realm of value
philosophy
Experimentalist values
analytic philosophy
Plato's division of human decisions
16. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?
responsibility theory
normative philosophy of education
Athens and Sparta
Monkey Trial
17. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history
famous attack of medievals
Stanley Fish
ethics
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
18. 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
Experimentalist aesthetics
local government
Republic
Sophists
19. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'
happiness
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
Tenure
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
20. 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
Athens and Sparta
Laws
Order of Trivium
flute
21. Two categories of axiology
ethics and aesthetics
Hindu Patheism
Experimentalist view of education
Stanley Fish
22. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence
preciseness
experimentalism - existentialism - philosophical analysis - and postmodernism
existence precedes essence
Canon
23. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?
naturalism
ages that Trivium should be used
epitome of postmodern person
Naturalism
24. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning
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25. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?
ethics and aesthetics
Dorian music
philosophy of education
Thoreau
26. Aspect which makes something tangible
Great defect in modern education
matter
organized knowledge
Plato
27. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
up
X Generation
idealist theory of education
28. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
ages that Trivium should be used
subjective idealism
Zeno
actuality
29. 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
conceptual mapping
local government
theistic wing of existentialism
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
30. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
national government
empiricism
difference between leisure and amusement
Jacques Derrida
31. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people
philosophy as a subject matter
philosophical idealist
fundamental part of teaching
normative philosophy of education
32. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia
Leisure
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Socratic method
Xenophon
33. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
pragmatism
analytic
scholastic
quadrivium
34. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught
complete moral education
analysis
practical issues
Theology
35. All knowledge is derived from the senses
undergraduate schools
ages that Trivium should be used
ethics and aesthetics
empiricism
36. Father of History
cultural literacy
criticism of latin
Herodotus
pure secularism
37. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition
confidence
noetic powers
flute
descriptive
38. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
epitome of postmodern person
Hindu Patheism
postmodernity
Canon
39. Which states do textbook companies listen to?
California and Texas
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
postmodernist aesthetics
Aristotle
40. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'
a subject matter and an activity
division of controversial issues
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
controlled transaction
41. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought
linguistic descriptions
national government
Middle Ages
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
42. Two main philosophers of idealism
existentialist aesthetics
Theology
Kant and George Berkeley
reason
43. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Neil Postman
Cosmic dualism
radical personalism of questions of philosophy
44. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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45. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
potentiality
liberation to truth
epitome of postmodern person
Aristotle
46. Academic freedom does not mean _______
Strict neutrality
Platonic concept of education
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
47. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Strict neutrality
critique of great texts of western world
hallmark of liberal arts education
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
48. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical
Naturalism
pure secularism
goal of liberal education
state
49. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)
Canon
Aristotle
Memorabilia
existentialism
50. 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
Experimentalist aesthetics
philosophy
confidence
analytic philosophy
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