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DSST Foundations Of Education

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






2. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?






3. 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






4. Seek a comprehensive interpretation of things; formulate a worldview






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






6. 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






7. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






8. 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






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






10. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






11. Peterson thinks we are doing well with what Christian mind?






12. Original 7 liberal arts - Grammar - Learn what facts are and mean; memorization; elementary schools; little kids are very good at memorizing and they like it






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






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






15. Philosophy is both...?






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






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






18. 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






19. If someone is having intellectual questions about Christianity...






20. In ancient Greece - where was most education done?






21. Concept of the beautiful






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






23. All reality comes from material components of the universe and their operations






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






25. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






26. 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






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






28. Good and evil in constant battle






29. Most famous multiculturalist project






30. 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;






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






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






33. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric






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






35. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in






36. What Jacques Maritain calls 'service education'






37. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus






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






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






40. 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






41. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






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






43. Denies rationality or order in the universe; focus of primacy of existing individual; man is nothing but what he makes of himself - Jean Paul Sartre






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






45. What is the hallmark of existentialism?






46. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






47. Give a very simple explanation with arguments against it






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






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






50. Use women more as slaves