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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






3. Excellence that is not primarily excellence of skill but excellence of virtue






4. Quintessential educated medieval person






5. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






6. Theoretical issues and practical issues






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






8. Consisted of subjects






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






10. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






11. 'What is reality' 'What is God like' 'What is time'






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






13. Learning is...






14. Only use technology in ways that help and not in harmful ways






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






16. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






17. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






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






19. 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






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






21. Arithmetic - geometry - astronomy - and music






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






23. 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






24. 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






25. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






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






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






28. Takes a bunch of subjects for no real reason; only goal of education is power; relativist position






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






30. Stanley Fish; reader's experience replaces formal structure of text






31. 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






32. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






33. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






34. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






35. Two main philosophers of idealism






36. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






37. Capability to change in certain ways






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






39. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment






40. Aristotle praises them for making education the business of the state; criticizes them for brutalizing their children by laborious exercises which they think will make them courageous






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






42. 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






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






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






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






46. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






47. Technology is not always a __________.






48. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






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






50. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor