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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Started naturalism






3. 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






4. Invites studnets to discuss - question - and reflect upon the values that they are taught






5. How was ancient Greece divided?






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






7. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






8. Father of History






9. Character is Xenophon's Memorabilia; thought himself very wise because he read many philosophers and poets; Socrates used the Socratic method on him and made him see that he was not wise; spent as much as possible with Socrates after this






10. Believes reality is composed of minds - ideas - or selves - rather than material things






11. What the medievals are criticized for






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






13. Aspect which makes something tangible






14. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






15. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved






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






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






18. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts






19. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






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






22. One that shapes the whole person






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






30. 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






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






32. Rational structure of Christian thought






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






34. 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






35. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






36. 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






37. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






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






39. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind






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






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






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






43. To teach men how to learn for themselves






44. 'What is good?'






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

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46. Human person is a spiritual or rational being






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






48. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






49. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






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