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Paidea!

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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1.

According to Zakaria, what started to change in Ancient Greece?


a)
  1. education became interdisciplinary

b)
  1. education that was vocational shifted to reaching excellence or virtue

c)

Physical Training became a crucial part of the curriculum

2.

What is arête?


a)
  1. "Rank, nobility, moral virtue, excellence

b)
  1. “rearing of a child, education"

c)

“athletic training, exercise”

3.

What does Ilyenkov want teachers to do?


a)
  1. train student’s critical thinking

b)
  1. train student’s empathy and compassion

c)
  1. to teach students to think at the level of contemporary logic

d)
  1. to teach student produce abstract knowledge

4.

Who was one of the first people to use the term artes liberales?


a)

Plato

b)
  1. Aristotel

c)
  1. Dewey

d)
  1. Cicero

5.

Education is an arena of struggles, practical and theoretical. Who said it? 


a)
  1. Nastia Volobueva

b)
  1. Rousseau

c)

Dewey

d)

Ilyenkov

6.

Choose what is incorrect

a)
  1. the trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric

b)
  1. the quadrivium—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy

c)
  1. the trivium—grammar, math, and rhetoric

d)

the fiverivium—arithmetic, geometry, music, literature and grammar

7.

Where was the first European university founded?


a)

Rome

b)
  1. Bologna

c)

Palerno

d)
  1. Amsterdam

8.

Why did Dewey write his article Experience and Education? What was his intention or goal?

a)
  1. Dewey wanted to highlight the importance of developing a new philosophy of education. On top of that, he wanted to raise the question of what must be worthy of the name education

b)
  1. Dewey wanted to convince readers that traditional education is outdated. His goal was to develop a philosophical basis for progressive educators to explain themselves

c)
  1. Dewey did not like what other educators write and say about the nature of education. That is why he paid attention to student’ experience to show that none of the contemporary thinkers gets the real essence of the goal of education.

9.

What country do we associate with the emergence of a Research University? And who?


a)

Italy, Elliot

b)
  1. Germany, Humboldt

c)
  1. USA, Elliot

d)
  1. USA, Humboldt

10.

How old is the idea of the elective system?


a)
  1. more than 100 years, less than 200

b)
  1. more than 500

c)
  1. as old as Plato

d)
  1. around 90 years 

11.

What is the goal of education for Rousseau and Nietzsche? According to Mark E. Jonas


a)

happiness

b)
  1. ability to think

c)
  1. self-mastery

12.

How to develop one’s autonomy, according to Jonas’s interpretation of Rousseau and Nietzsche?


a)
  1. Autonomy develops by means of heteronomy. So internal appears out of external.

b)
  1. Autonomy should be trained. Students must train in the process of self-overcoming

c)
  1. Autonomy is achieved via rigorous pedagogy and oppressive style of teaching.

13.

What does Dewey mean by the term 'experiential continuum'?


a)

The continuous development of experience throughout one's life


b)

The connection between past experiences and the issues of the present


c)

The integration of subject-matter and methods in education


d)

The need for a philosophy of experience in progressive schools


14.

What did Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins introduce at the University of Chicago?


a)

A core curriculum based on great books


b)

A focus on vocational education


c)

An elective system with few required courses


d)

A balance between practical and philosophical knowledge


15.


Wayland stepped down in 1855, and his successor took a healthy step back. Credit traditionally been given to …………, the Harvard president who eventually made the new system work. It was during (a)   remarkable 40-year term of office, between 1869 and 1909, that Harvard adopted the philosophy of free choice that Wayland had tried to introduce at Brown in 1850. 


Over the course of his tenure, the size of the faculty, the number of courses, and the endowment at Harvard all grew dramatically. By promoting a curriculum based on personal freedom and choice, he had succeeded in turning the college into a modern university