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DSST Foundations Of Education
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1. 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
Neo-Platonism
metaphysics
existentialist aesthetics
Republic
2. Two broad schools of thought that analytic philosophy can be divided into as proposed by Ludwig Wittgenstein:
Plato
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Athens
ideal language analysis and ordinary language analysis
3. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato
existentialism
Aristotle
Liberal vs. Vocational Dichotomy
ethics
4. 'What is good?'
Postmodernity educational practice
Baby Boomlets (Generation Y)
Sophists
ethics
5. 'Man is the measure of all things'
Against the Sophists
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
philosophy as a subject matter
Protagoras
6. Art is the catalyst for the changing viewers' experience and for creating new feelings - insights - and intuitions
embrace them intellectually
experimentalist aesthetic view
tradition of liberal arts education
existentialism
7. We often succeed in teaching pupils 'subjects' but fail to teach them how to think; they learn everything except the art of learning
subjective idealism
Peterson
liberal education and career training
Great defect in modern education
8. Xenophon; continuation of Thucydides' history of Peloponnesian War
Tolkein approach
only adequate education
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
Hellenica
9. 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
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
reader-response theory
state
Against the Sophists
10. 1. give every possible argument to false philosophies. 2. have students study the truth to avoid falsehoods. 3. give a very simple explanation with arguments against it
difference between leisure and amusement
3 basic approaches to dealing with false philosophy in classroom
California and Texas
Neo-Platonism
11. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
hallmark of liberal arts education
cognitive
Monkey Trial
12. All knowledge is derived from the senses
Neo-Platonism
Sigmund Freud
empiricism
pure secularism
13. Provides a solid basis for moral ieals as well as the best methods for communicating them to our young
a healthy Christian theism
Order of Trivium
goal of liberal education
Panathenaicus
14. Which topic has stirred most debate in last two decades of 20th century?
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
multiculturalism
logic
self-knowledge
15. What do Americans have the most of in education?
Theology
Great defect in modern education
philosophy
confidence
16. What medievals focused on
revelation
experimentalism (pragmatism - instrumentalism)
naturalistic cosmotogies
ages that Trivium should be used
17. One of the departmental philosophies; attempts to bring the insights and methods of philosophies to bear on the educational enterprise
Protestant Reformation
sauromatides
ideal language analysis
philosophy of education
18. 'What is valuable?'
Peterson
axiology
ordinary language analysis
linguistic descriptions
19. It is a dead language
philosophical analysis
ultimate goal of aesthetic education
criticism of latin
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
20. Experimentalist students are to be both:
Sparta
experimentalist aesthetic view
naturalistic cosmotogies
mirror of society and critic of society
21. Why does Sayers emphasize the laerning of Latin?
Dead White European Male
sole true end of education
helps with learning other languages; emphasizes speaking more than writing; particularly helpful with learning your own language; is involved in math - science - etc
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
22. The philosophy that argues that nature alone is real.
Lyceum
naturalism
local government
multiculturalism
23. What was created to protect academic freedom?
Tenure
postmodernism
Trivium and Quadrivium
four-part division of causes by Aristotle
24. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against
Thomistic realism
Theology
hubris
Leisure
25. Consisted of subjects
arete
Quadrivium
Epicurus
ages that Trivium should be used
26. 1600s; get to truth through science
modernity
objectivity and subjectivity of Canon
critique of great texts of western world
Customary branches of education according to Aristotle
27. Nature of any given thing
up
pragmatism
Essence
goal of liberal education
28. World is an emanation of God's own being
First Amendment activists
dialectic
Neo-Platonism
local government
29. 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
Sparta
Isocrates
Traditional reasons why we should study the canon
metaphysics
30. Scopes v. State; clear example of confusing a scientific opinion with theological heresay
embrace them intellectually
Monkey Trial
California and Texas
sauromatides
31. What themes unified the Great Tradition of liberal arts for more than 2 millenia?
formation of character - cultivation of intellect - and development of judgment - inspiration of delight in the right things
Platonic concept of education
idealism - naturalism - and Thomistic realism
C.S. Lewis and Peterson approach
32. One who stands alone - outside any organized human endeavor
difference between leisure and amusement
liberation to truth
epitome of postmodern person
provides a framework for thinking critically abouta ll of the relevant issues
33. Xenophon; an account of the mercenaries under Cyrus
Isocrates
Arabasis
active
Isocrates
34. What liberal education and knowledge are embodied in
liberal education and career training
Lyceum
Abraham Joshua Heschel
atheistic wing of existentialism
35. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge
epitome of postmodern person
Theology
Protagoras
transcendential idealism
36. Application of ethical principles in particular instances
cognitive
casuity
philosophy
Euthydemus
37. Knowledge most worth having
Justice and meritocracy
reader-response theory
transcendential idealism
self-knowledge
38. Where is the essential Christian liberarl arts model most clearly demonstrated?
undergraduate schools
flute
collective Christian mind
Zeno
39. 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
multiculturalism
idealist theory of education
theistic wing of existentialism
reason
40. 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
Nicomachean Ethics
theoretical side (ABC pattern)
trivium
Sparta
41. Capability to change in certain ways
Antidosis
potentiality
First Amendment activists
Isocrates
42. Categories of philosophy as an activity
Plato
Peterson
synthetic - analytic - and descriptive
Naturalism
43. Who decides what textbooks go in schools?
national government
liberal learning
socratic method
metaphysics
44. Rejects aims of systematic philosophy by refusing to advance statements about reality - knowledge - value - God - and the meaning of life; philosophy msut clarify the way we use language and thereby clarify our concepts
metaphysics
Criticism of existentialism
analytic philosophy
Tenure
45. Most famous multiculturalist project
pragmatism
Plato
ages that Trivium should be used
critique of great texts of western world
46. Thomas Aquinas became foundation of intellectual endeavor in Catholic church; kept learning alive during Dark Ages; monks preserved church
ordinary language analysis
organized knowledge
Middle Ages
Justice and meritocracy
47. Plato; most important part of education is right training in the nursery; 2 branches of education are gymastics (body) and music (improvement of soul); 2 branches of gymnastics are dancing and wrestling; any change except from evil is the most danger
existentialism
Laws
Antidosis
ethics
48. How was ancient Greece divided?
Trivium and Quadrivium
John Dewey
Socrates
into poleis (city states) and surrounding country with distinct cultures
49. Encompasses the great - ongoing dialogue of life's most important questions
a healthy Christian theism
philosophy as a subject matter
Euthydemus
Stanford University Students
50. 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
postmodernity
Blessing
atheistic wing of existentialism
postmodernism
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