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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. What is the building block of civilization?






2. Learning is...






3. Teacher must have information mastered; most commonly used at law school; knocks away falsehood and assumes that truth is there; contrast to discussion - which focuses more on participation and teaches relativity that all ideas are equal; particularl






4. Analytic procedures can improve educational philosophy by:






5. Experimentalist students are to be both:






6. To discover regularities of the natural world and make them into generalizations that represent scientific law






7. 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






8. Taught rhetoric at the Academy; tutored Alexander the Great; founded the Lyceum; amassed a large library - collected specimen - engaged in scientific research - and pondered the nature of heavens and earth; stresses the body before the mind






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. Concept of the beautiful






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






12. Lived in Athens during pinnacle of cultural achievement; criticized sophists of his day for valuing oratorical showmanship over truth; knew Socrates; Socrates foretold that he would do great thing; was remarked upon by Cicero






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






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






15. No God






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






17. Capability to change in certain ways






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






19. What Greeks mostly focused on






20. Understand realities of material world; hard science and math; teacher is agent connecting student with world of facts and should refrain from value judgments






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






22. 1600s; get to truth through science






23. Artistotle; comments on education; concerns proper education of the youth; values education for its own sake and not for its instrumental subservience






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






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






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






27. A harmful type of multiculturalism?






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






29. 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






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






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






32. Thought that you should understand everything from its cause; liked music more than Plato






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






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






35. Where original liberal arts curriculum was broken into 7 subjects






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






37. Knowledge most worth having






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






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






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






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






42. Isocrates; says that educated people are those who manage well everyday circumstances - those who are decent and honorable with others - those who hold pleasure under control and are not unduly overcome by misfortune - and those who are not spoiled b






43. What Aristotle advocated for; thinks in terms of work - leisure - and play; time well-spent developing your humanity






44. Categories of philosophy as an activity






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






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






47. Arrogance and pride before a fall; waht all 3 key elements of Greek education warn against






48. Nature alone is real - and all reality is physical






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






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