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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Children born from 1981-1999






3. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






4. In the past - learning a foreign language involved just translating - and this was a great mental exercise with what?






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






6. 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






7. Father of History






8. Said that we must weigh possible liabilities as well as benefits of new technology for human affairs and the educational process






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






10. Education for a free person - not just vocational education; includes Trivium and Quadrivium; conforming ones to truth with all subjects






11. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.






12. Most appropriate for meeting phase of education where we can contemplate and discuss large ideas that have shaped our civilization






13. 'Man is the measure of all things'






14. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions






15. Isocrates; the mind is superior to the body; there is no institution of man that power of speech has not helped us develop; says that all clever speakers are the disciples of Athens; believes philosophy and oratory go hand in hand






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






17. What are the three steps to Chrsitian teaching and learning?






18. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






19. Without this - the whole educational system is full of loose ends






20. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






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






22. Two main philosophers of idealism






23. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






25. Said that we tend to become tools of our tools






26. Who was Socrates strongly influenced by?






27. 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






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






29. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






30. Modern America says that what has the right and duty to suppport all levels of education?






31. Kant's general form of moral law






32. Experimentalist students are to be both:






33. Aristotle; explored education - character - and virtue; stresses the need for the laws to regulate the discipline of children and adults; says that Sparta seems to be the only state in which the lawgiver has paid attention to the nurture and exercise






34. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






35. Roots in Hellenistic and Judeo-Christian thought; ffirms that the world is real - good - and intelligible






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






37. Martin Luther; John Calvin






38. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






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






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






41. 1. It is the best and has stood the test of time 2. Cultural literacy - E.D. Hirsch Jr.






42. Has achieved significant degree of mental freedom - understands moral and civil responsibility - is tolerant and humane - and has a deep sense of historic aspirations and struggles of the human race






43. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church






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






45. 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;






46. 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






47. Started naturalism






48. See how facts come together; Jr. High; argumentative






49. Experience is reality; activity-based






50. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects