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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






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






3. 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






4. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions






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






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






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

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8. 1600s; get to truth through science






9. 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






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






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






12. Two categories of axiology






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






14. Our god is what we possess and our identity by what we do for a living






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






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






17. Questions that deal with knowing/knowledge and how we discover truth fall into what philosophical category?






18. World is permeated by divine essence






19. 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






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






21. Major strenght of the Christian philosophy of education






22. 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






23. What the medievals are criticized for






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






25. Identify methods and assumptions upon which common sense and science depend






26. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






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






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






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






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






31. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






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






33. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






34. 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






35. 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






36. Best - objective - recognition - There is no objective truth - taste - most powerful people's opinions win - include much more variety






37. Very concerned with justice; Republic is his most famous writing; school should identify which place (philosopher king - military - or provider) a student should go; early Plato = Plato writing what Socrates said; later Plato = using Socrates just as






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






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






40. 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






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






42. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?






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






44. Task of philosophy that is the clarification of the way we think and speak about educational matters; proposed by R.S. Peters






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






46. No pure faith that science gives us truth; largely comes out of the study of language






47. 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






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






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






50. Branch of philosophy that examines 'What is the nature of reality' and 'What exists?';reality of objects - status of time - casualty - God's existence - and nature of human being