Test your basic knowledge |

DSST Foundations Of Education

Subjects : dsst, teaching
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends






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






3. Enable students to become thinkers and leaders and not just prepare them to function in society






4. Theoretical issues and practical issues






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






6. 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






7. Common language is adequate for human purposes; we simply need to better understand its various functions and structure; replaced ideal language analysis after 1920-30






8. Two main philosophers of idealism






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






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






11. What do property taxes for schools not work to creat equal schooling?






12. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






14. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






15. 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;






16. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






17. The 'love of wisdom'






18. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life






19. Philosophy is both...?






20. Knowledge most worth having






21. 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






22. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






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






24. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






25. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






27. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






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






29. Aristotle; statments about good and happy life of excellent activities + to achieve good life we must cultivate certain dispositions=we ought to cultivate these dispositions






30. Father of Epicureanism - maximize pleasure and minimize pain; did not believe in immortal soul - so said that one should live the good life here






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






32. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






33. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






34. 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






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






36. By Dewey; layperson's version of the scientific method; 'complete act of thought'






37. One that shapes the whole person






38. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






39. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






40. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:






41. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






42. Capability to change in certain ways






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






44. It is a dead language






45. Goal of Aristotle; said that you 'love what you ought to love'






46. 'What is valuable?'






47. Aspect which makes something tangible






48. Complete - systematic set of answers to basic philosophical questions






49. 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






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