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DSST Foundations Of Education

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1. 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






2. Not just liberation from falsehood but...






3. Rule by those who merit it; Plato in the Republic considers this just






4. Started naturalism






5. World is permeated by divine essence






6. Xenophon; pays tribute to Socrates; warns against potential distractions in other kinds of knowledge; says that nothing is more useful than Socrates' companionship






7. Recommend condition child to his/her social role






8. Memory - perceptions - and rational intuition






9. Written late in Plato's career; returns to the questions about nature and purpose of paideia






10. Experimentalist students are to be both:






11. The number and percentage of students receiving 'A's' in up or down?






12. 'Man is the measure of all things'






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






14. 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






15. Grammar: 9-11; Dialectic: 12-14; rhetoric; 14-?






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






17. 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






18. Use women more as slaves






19. Began movement known as logical positivism; connects meaning of all language to empirical verification; statements not verifiable to scientific criteria and meaningless






20. Physical universe is eternal and persists through countless permutations






21. Two categories of axiology






22. Practical experience of those trying to live a Christian life






23. Is the notion that there are truths that exist independently of what people think rejected or accepted by experimentalists?






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






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






26. Enable students to be more self-aware and discriminatory in what they enjoy; improve their judgments about what is aesthetically admirable






27. 1. Reason - Head - Philosopher kings and guardians 2. Will - Chest - military 3. Appetites - Stomach - Providers/farmers

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28. Music should be studied with a view to what?






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






30. 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






31. Allow women to ride horseback and learn weaponry






32. Good and evil in constant battle






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






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






35. Who said - 'What we need more than anything is not textbooks but textpeople'?






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






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






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






39. Proposed by William Frankena; philosophy should map overall logic of educational philosophy as an entire region of discourse






40. How was ancient Greece divided?






41. Rejects any concept of a transcendent - ultimate fixed reality; experience is the only basis for philosophy; we can adapt to and even control our environment






42. Place cognitive integrity of many theological matters in question






43. Third most important Greek historian; student of Socrates; wrote about the education of Cyrus the King of Persia






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






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






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






50. 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