Educational Background / History

Question 1

Probably the person most associated with updating/changing the Churches views on education-rooted his ideas in Aristotle

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St. Thomas Aquinas

Question 2

Prussian leader who established better training for teachers

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Frederick the Great

Question 3

Athenian philosopher who developed a teaching method that centers on using questions to lead student to reach conclusion

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Socrates

Question 4

French Philosophy who believed that education should be natural not artificial

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Rousseau

Question 5

Lao-tszu and Confucius are associated with Ancient Education in the nation of

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China

Question 6

The Northwest Ordinances of 1785 & 1787 encouraged townships set aside land for

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educational purposes

Question 7

The first state to pass compulsory attendance laws in education was

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Massachusetts

Question 8

Hornbooks, New England Primer, Blue-Backed Speller, & Slate Boards were all early types of

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Teaching Materials

Question 9

Usually seen as the "father" of modern public education

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Mann

Question 10

American Academies were schools that prepared men and women for employment through practical studies -- founded by

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Ben Franklin

Question 11

Latin Grammar Schools and American Academies started to be replaced by ____________ which could reach more masses.

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High Schools

Question 12

Latin Grammr schools were college prep that stressed

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Latin and Greek

Question 13

Dame schools were usually located in New England and were unique because they were led by a

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female teacher

Question 14

From 8-18 boys here were wards of the state--education to develop courage, patriotism, obedience, cunning, and strength

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Sparta

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Roman Educator who taught to the upper classes and stressed a very "humanistic" (classics/language) style of education

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Quintilian

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Swiss Educator Pestalozzi believed that students should be treated with

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love and kindness

Question 17

Leader during the Middle Ages who valued and stressed education when it was seen as "weak" and only for monks

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Charlemagne

Question 18

Period where "Humanism" was stressed and the period protested against the dogmatic power of the church over everything

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Renaissance

Question 19

Plato and Aristotle believed these people did not process the intelligence to be educated

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females, slaves

Question 20

Harvard, William & Mary, Yale, and Princeton were all

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were colonial colleges

Question 21

Morrill Land Grant (1862) & Smith-Hughes Act (1917) established that this type of education was needed

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Vocational

Question 22

Biggest influence on Middle Age educational system

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The Christian Church

Question 23

John Locke was a believer in this concept: The idea that the human mind is born with a clean slate

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Tabula Rasa

Question 24

Froebel is associated with laying the foundation of

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Kindergarten

Question 25

Older Deluder Satan required that Massachusetts towns

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provide an education to youth

Educational Background / History

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Educational Background / History

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