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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






2. Very military-oriented; concerned with Spartan freedom - not necessarily individual freedom; more celebrated in ancient times; slave society with slaves known as helots owned by the state; no names on tombstones except when dying in battle or giving






3. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






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






5. How was ancient Greece divided?






6. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






7. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?






8. 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






9. 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)






10. Closest to original spirit of philosophy; endeavor to establish standards and ideals for our individual and collective lives






11. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?






12. 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






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






14. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?






15. 'Discoverer of an art is not the best judge of it.'






16. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






17. Good and evil in constant battle






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






19. List of works that have always been studied






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






21. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






22. What Greeks mostly focused on






23. 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;






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






25. 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






26. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






27. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history






28. Stress self-expression






29. Debated Protagoras; never wrote anything down; the main character of Plato's writings; also taught Xenophon; human virtue was his primary concern; uses dialogue to bring out truth; responsibility for learning is on the learning and did not call himse






30. 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






31. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






32. 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






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






34. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?






35. Philosophy is both...?






36. It is a dead language






37. 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






38. We ought to cultivate certain dispositions + factual and scientific statements about how to produce desired results=statements recommending what to do how - when - and so on






39. Theoretical issues and practical issues






40. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






41. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






43. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






44. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






45. The 'love of wisdom'






46. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative






47. One that shapes the whole person






48. What was created to protect academic freedom?






49. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






50. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'