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DSST Foundations Of Education

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. 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. An untranslatable word that encompasses the total formation of a human being






4. Father of Stoicism - live a virtuous life and emphasize maintaining inner freedom - you can control your reactions to outside influences






5. Intensifies personal involvement; uses 'socratic method'; have student discover that he is the sole judge of what is valuable






6. No God






7. Students taught deconstruction - how to uncover contradictions in texts and reveal power hierarchies involved






8. Grammar - dialogue - and rhetoric of the Trivium used to teach pupil use of the tools of learning

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9. 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






10. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






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






12. General ideas about education and their logical implications






13. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






14. It is a dead language






15. All knowledge is derived from the senses






16. 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






17. Reading and writing - gymnastics exercises - music - and drawing






18. 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






19. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






20. Attempt to represent accurately 'what is the case'; describe facts clearly and objectively






21. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






22. Socrates' ultimate goal






23. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






25. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise






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






27. Studied under Socrates; banished by Athens - but once Athens allied itself with Sparta against the Thebes - they lifted his banishment






28. Learning is...






29. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






30. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






32. Isocrates; criticism towards his day's teachers of wisdom; leave out nothing that can be taught; study of political discourse can help more than any other thing to stimulate and form sobriety and justice






33. What medievals focused on






34. Capability to change in certain ways






35. The philosophy that emphasizes that you make your own choices in order to give meaning to your life (the choice doesn't really matter; what matters is that you make a choice)






36. To teach men how to learn for themselves






37. Application of ethical principles in particular instances






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






39. Generally is not a big supporter of the arts and believes they tend to make you focused on the wrong things; believes state should control what people read - see - etc






40. Stress self-expression






41. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






42. Said that it makes a big difference whether we form habits from our youth






43. Leader in canon busting; says books have persisted because of the accidents of history






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






45. 1600s; get to truth through science






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






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. Nature of any given thing






49. 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






50. 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