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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. Two main philosophers of idealism






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






3. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






4. 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






5. Rub shoulders with diverse group of people






6. Experimentalist students are to be both:






7. Plato; process of closely questioning ideas through disalogue for finding what's true






8. What Sayers says is the best language to learn






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






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






11. It rests on the belief that all aspects of the world and human life are integrally related






12. 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






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






14. General education in service of seeking and knowing truth






15. Said that we are now producing a populace of hyphenated Americans - and that education serves various gods






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






17. 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






18. Encourages individual choice






19. We first become aware that we exist; we then fashion our essence






20. 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?'






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






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






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






24. Experience is reality; activity-based






25. Experimentalist; says that experience goes past just sensory experience but also includes all that humans things and feel; stressed practical effectiveness






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






27. Two categories of axiology






28. Nature of any given thing






29. A healthy type of multiculturalism?






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






31. Public education should teach in accord to a Christian nation






32. Father of History






33. What the medievals are criticized for






34. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






35. Most famous multiculturalist project






36. Kant; mind=unifying factor in all knowledge






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






38. 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;






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






40. Peterson thinks we are not doing very well with what Christian mind - because it is not a strong force in academia?






41. Philosophy is both...?






42. Experimentalism is also/better known as what?






43. Children born from 1981-1999






44. It is a dead language






45. What music does Aristotle say in the gravest and manliest?






46. Personal nature; the model of mature persons interacting with developing people






47. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






48. The beliefs on must embrace; the propositions one must accept as true






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






50. Grammar - logic - and rhetoric