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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Socrates; Soren Kierkegaard; we must exercise pure faith and live as if God exists; faith is always perilous and never easy; build life on human longing for Ultimate Being






2. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






3. Experimentalist students are to be both:






4. 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






5. Each individual must decide what is pleasing - delightful - and beautiful; art need not be judged by relationship to some actual object






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






7. Aristotle; integrate body - mind - and morality into education






8. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






9. Philosophy is both...?






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






11. 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






12. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






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






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






15. Technology is not always a __________.






16. Good and evil in constant battle






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






18. Music should be studied with a view to what?






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






20. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning






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






22. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects






23. Plato; an analogy of the mind as a darkened cave - and the ideal world is really what is important






24. Lists and defines a set of dispositions to be fostered in students; projects comprehensive vision of education






25. Enable students to solve problems that arise within their experience; Dewey prefers procedural subjects; learning anchored in immediate experience; focus on society






26. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






27. To teach men how to learn for themselves






28. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






29. Students need wide exposure to different ideas and opinions to navigate society and persuade others to accept views; may be legitimately doubted






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






31. 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






32. Most famous Sophist; said 'man is the measure of all things'; taught rhetorical skills to debate whichever side one may wish - which was mortifying to the ancient world






33. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






34. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing






35. Portion of being






36. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






37. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






38. Children born from 1981-1999






39. Who said that education is the 'most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in?'






40. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






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






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






43. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






44. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise






45. 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






46. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'






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






48. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist






49. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable






50. 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