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Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
According to Zakaria, what started to change in Ancient Greece?
education became interdisciplinary
education that was vocational shifted to reaching excellence or virtue
Physical Training became a crucial part of the curriculum
What is arête?
"Rank, nobility, moral virtue, excellence
“rearing of a child, education"
“athletic training, exercise”
What does Ilyenkov want teachers to do?
train student’s critical thinking
train student’s empathy and compassion
to teach students to think at the level of contemporary logic
to teach student produce abstract knowledge
Who was one of the first people to use the term artes liberales?
Plato
Aristotel
Dewey
Cicero
Education is an arena of struggles, practical and theoretical. Who said it?
Nastia Volobueva
Rousseau
Dewey
Ilyenkov
Choose what is incorrect
the trivium—grammar, logic, and rhetoric
the quadrivium—arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy
the trivium—grammar, math, and rhetoric
the fiverivium—arithmetic, geometry, music, literature and grammar
Where was the first European university founded?
Rome
Bologna
Palerno
Amsterdam
Why did Dewey write his article Experience and Education? What was his intention or goal?
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
Dewey wanted to convince readers that traditional education is outdated. His goal was to develop a philosophical basis for progressive educators to explain themselves
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.
What country do we associate with the emergence of a Research University? And who?
Italy, Elliot
Germany, Humboldt
USA, Elliot
USA, Humboldt
How old is the idea of the elective system?
more than 100 years, less than 200
more than 500
as old as Plato
around 90 years
What is the goal of education for Rousseau and Nietzsche? According to Mark E. Jonas
happiness
ability to think
self-mastery
How to develop one’s autonomy, according to Jonas’s interpretation of Rousseau and Nietzsche?
Autonomy develops by means of heteronomy. So internal appears out of external.
Autonomy should be trained. Students must train in the process of self-overcoming
Autonomy is achieved via rigorous pedagogy and oppressive style of teaching.
What does Dewey mean by the term 'experiential continuum'?
The continuous development of experience throughout one's life
The connection between past experiences and the issues of the present
The integration of subject-matter and methods in education
The need for a philosophy of experience in progressive schools
What did Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins introduce at the University of Chicago?
A core curriculum based on great books
A focus on vocational education
An elective system with few required courses
A balance between practical and philosophical knowledge
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
