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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Use women more as slaves






2. 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






3. Most debates will disappear if you are clear with your terms






4. 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






5. 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






6. Leads educators to think in specific way about shaping moral character and refining aesthetic taste






7. Give every possible argument to false philosophy; combat evil by studying evil






8. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






9. Recognizes no fixed - orderly reality which educators can impart to students; curriculum reflects version of truth by those who hold power and shows that their consciousness has been distorted by repressive systems






10. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






11. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






12. 1. examination of assumptions behind truths 2. independent investigations of a problem 3. opportunities for creativity 4. socialization exercises






13. 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






14. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay






15. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






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






17. Experimentalist students are to be both:






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






19. Experimentalism; try to arouse students' curiosity by activity-based learning; one learns by doing






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






21. Portion of being






22. Philosophy is both...?






23. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






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






25. Beauty is what people do in fact enjoy; what is admired ought to be admired






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






27. 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






28. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






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






30. 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






31. Pertain to actual conduct of teachers and their activities in the classroom






32. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






33. General ideas about education and their logical implications






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






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






36. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






38. Quintessential educated medieval person






39. 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






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






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






42. Most famous multiculturalist project






43. 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






44. Which instrument does Aristotle say in the Politics should not be played in education because it requires such great skill?






45. Teach using didactic methods - repetition - memorization - etc






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






47. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






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






49. Martin Luther; John Calvin






50. Aristotle advocated for these with morality; right vitues are located in the middle of two extreme vices and if you know the right thing to do - you still have to build healthy habits to do the right thing