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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
hairsplitting
idealist metaphysics
reason
Order of Trivium
2. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
logic
casuity
liberal learning
3. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers
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4. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms
general education
Sophists
philosophical analysis
theoretical issues
5. Plato; comtemplates nature of justice and the well-ordered city; differentiates between true knowledge and mere opinion and between true and false philosophers
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Socratic method
Republic
6. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
naturalism
Arabasis
Blessing
Laws
7. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?
Nicocles
linguistic descriptions
state
religious zealots
8. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization
Experimentalist values
Tenure
socratic method
difference between leisure and amusement
9. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation
general education
general education
religious zealots
Criticism of existentialism
10. 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
Zeno
Plato
hairsplitting
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
11. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Xenophon
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
Memorabilia
theistic wing of existentialism
12. 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
analytic philosophy
philosophical analysis
potentiality
difference between leisure and amusement
13. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia
virtue
trivium
Laws
Plato and the arts
14. What the medievals are criticized for
hairsplitting
philosophy
multiculturalism
Key elements of Greek education
15. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods
critique of great texts of western world
organized knowledge
Tolkein approach
Great defect in modern education
16. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience
Politics
difference between leisure and amusement
sole true end of education
Hindu Patheism
17. Nature of any given thing
Thomistic realism
ethics and aesthetics
Sigmund Freud
Essence
18. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...
Thracians
Naturalist aim of education
embrace them intellectually
Naturalism vs. Christianity
19. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
Memorabilia
innoculation method
Materialism
Pluralism
20. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?
There are some rich schools - some middle-income schools - and some poor schools
a subject matter and an activity
Tenure
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
21. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved
Epistemology
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
postermodernist literary ideas
ideal language analysis
22. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment
normative
Tenure
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
xenophon
23. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Modernity
actuality
Neo-Platonism
confidence
24. 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
epitome of postmodern person
Naturalism vs. Christianity
national government
existentialism
25. Aspect which makes something tangible
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
analytic
matter
Experimentalist aesthetics
26. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought
subjective idealism
Memorabilia
Socratic method
Allegory of the Cave
27. Who believes that the Fall really didn't mess us up that much?
Laws
Dead White European Male
Peterson
Xenophon
28. Father of History
analytic
Experimentalist view of education
Herodotus
synthetic
29. 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
Sophists
up
philosophical idealist
Sparta
30. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
categorical imperative
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
general education
31. Portion of being
preciseness
cognitive
actuality
logic
32. Saidsaid that value-laden dichotomies (binaries) provide foundation for our western intellectual tradition; postmodernist
Nicocles
Naturalist aim of education
Plato
Jacques Derrida
33. Kant's general form of moral law
in the home
self-knowledge
Nicomachean Ethics
categorical imperative
34. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci
atheistic wing of existentialism
leaner-centered approach
potentiality
Isocrates
35. Try to guard against the indoctination of students to champion their right to make free choices
hubris
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Hellenica
value neutrality
36. 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
the mean - the possible - and the becoming
revelation
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
innoculation method
37. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?
cultural literacy
naturalistic cosmotogies
postmodernity
preciseness
38. Americans born between 1965 and 1981 have been labeled...?
Platonic concept of education
X Generation
Essence
form
39. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society
a healthy Christian theism
goal of liberal education
Protestant Reformation
analytic
40. 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
Antidosis
What messes up a meritocracy the most?
ages that Trivium should be used
happiness
41. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview
existentialist view of education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
synthetic
Nicomachean Ethics
42. A specific body of info every American should know
Sophists
cultural literacy
idealist metaphysics
Neo-Platonism
43. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
reader-response theory
national government
Thoreau
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
44. 3 traditional philosophies of education
normative philosophy of education
clarifying key terms and concepts - pointing out implications of philosophical statements - and examining structure of educational theories
atheistic wing of existentialism
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
45. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend
empiricism
actuality
analytic
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
46. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity
Leisure
rejected
socratic method
Plato
47. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness
arete
John Dewey
categorical imperative
Neo-Platonism
48. 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
practical issues
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
Abraham Lincoln
Athens
49. Experience is reality; activity-based
pragmatism
Sparta (Lacedaemonians)
Sparta
Euthydemus
50. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects
liberal learning
Acquisition of organized knowledge - development of intellectual skills - and enlargement of understanding - insights - and appreciation
Jacques Derrida
aesthetics