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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?






3. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?






4. Stress self-expression






5. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






6. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War






7. What are the 3 principles that Aristotle says education should be based upon?






8. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers

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9. 'What is valuable?'






10. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






11. Believe moral education should be done without references to religion






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






13. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






14. 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






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






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






17. World is an emanation of God's own being






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






19. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






20. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






21. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






22. 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;






23. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






24. 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






25. Express information to others; high school; want to express themselves






26. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






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






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






29. They overanalyze words; this actually teaches you to be very precise with language






30. Intelligent forms of discipline and correction as well as clear - rational explanation






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






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






33. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






34. Use women more as slaves






35. Which states do textbook companies listen to?






36. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless






37. All knowledge is derived from the senses






38. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






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






41. Enlightenment; ability of empirical - scientific reason to establish all important truth; confidence in orderly and rational operation of universe; idea of progress






42. Kant's general form of moral law






43. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers






44. Nicholas Wolterstoff; calls for balance between behavioral and cognitive domains






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






46. Aristotle's school where one would be trained in the body - have instruction in reason - and moral/habit training






47. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices






48. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






49. All talk about art is nothing more than a language game






50. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it