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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Nature of any given thing






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






3. Music should be studied with a view to what?






4. Have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods






5. 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






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






7. Isocrates; crafted as a courtroom defense and parallel Socrates' Apology; aim was to train citizens for public and private life; book on leadership; Isocrates had to defend himself against charges of corrupting youth






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






9. Taxing and regulating churches and other private educational organizations






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






11. Academic freedom does not mean _______






12. 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






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






14. Traveling - professional teachers; taught according to what each city state wanted taught; education was for practical reasons - and we have gone back to this in modern times






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






16. Father of History






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






18. Socrates' ultimate goal






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






20. 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






21. Good and evil in constant battle






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






23. Use women more as slaves






24. World is permeated by divine essence






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

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26. Learning is...






27. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






28. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor






29. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






30. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






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






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






33. No God






34. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young






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






36. Jean Paul Sartre; If God does exist - that would change nothing; humans have no hope of discovering pre-existent meaning to human life; humanity can be known same way as machinges - atoms - etc; recognizes aloneness and necessity of making moral deci






37. Stress self-expression






38. 1. Homer and epic poetry 2. theater; educated Greeks on their values using comedies and tragedies; embraced fate as one's destiny 3. History: Herodotus and Thucydides - who asked questions of 'why?'






39. Which two Greek poleis were emphasized in the 5th and 4th centuries BC?






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






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






42. Portion of being






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






44. What we take to be reality is created by our language; postmodernist thought






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






46. Experience is reality; activity-based






47. Plato; knowledge is mightiest of all faculties; opinion is in the interval between knowledge and ignorance; philosophers have a pleasure in learning and a good memory; capacity of learning exists in the soul already






48. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






49. Very existence of objects is donated by the mind and reality we experience depends on thought






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







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