Who is Locke?

This personbelieved that children enter the world with a mind like a "tabula rasa" or blank slate.

What is Spartan education?

Emphasis on military training, exercise, games, physical and moral training

What is the Socratic method?

A way of using probing intellectual dialogue as a teaching method. Teacher is a role model.

Who is Horace Mann?

He was the Father of Education because he believed school should be free and for everyone. He began the Common School movement.

What are normal schools?

These were the forerunners of teacher education colleges. People realized there was a need for greater training for teachers.

Who was Martin Luther?

This person believed education was necessary for religious instruction and provided support for compulsary elementary education.

What is education in Athens?

The goal of education was to prepare the well rounded individual for participation in citizenship.

Who was Quintilian?

He was the first state supported teacher. Believed "study depends on the good will of the student..."

What is education in New England?

Children were taught to read and write with a heavy emphasis on the Bible and religion.

What is the beginning of high schools in the US?

The Committee of Ten recommended curriculum and the mission and by the late 1800's there were compulsary education laws.

Who is Francis Bacon?

This person was the first to emphasize scientific inquiry and critical thinking skills.

What is education in Rome?

The emphasis was on developing an intellectual and moral citizen. This city recognized individual differences, and the importance of play and recreation.

Who was John Dewey?

The father of progressivism: Students should discover and learn through problem solving and using the scientific method. (Child centered, and children need freedom to explore).

What is schooling in the mid-Atlantic colonies? Bonus: New Jersey

There was more diversity here and therefore more tolerance of people of different religions. BONUS: There were more colleges established here than any other colony during this time.

What are the 1960's?

This was the era of Civil Rights, race riots, and great social unrest due to the war in Vietnam.

Who was Johann Pestalozzi?

He believed education should be child-centered. He believed in individual differences in children, and felt that children should be educated to reach their maximum potential.

Who was Johann Herbart?

Believed in systematic learning and the development of moral character. Thought education was a science and helped further educational psychology.

Who is Maria Montessori?

This Italian woman started a children's school for impoverished children with a special curriculum. Students learned practical activities, as well as used materials to develop their sensory, practical, and formal skills.

What is increased industrialization, the move away from farms to urban centers, and the need for more skills.

This was the cause of major changes in the early 19th centruy.

What are the Vocational Rehabilitation Act and the Education for Handicapped Act?

During the 1970's there was more attention paid to people with physical and mental disabilities. Two laws were passed to insure they had physical accessability and equal opportunitites for education.

Who is Freidrich Foebel?

This person is known for the establishment of the first kindgarten and believed in an activity curriculum and the promotion of creativity in the child.

Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

Father of modern child psychology. Proponent of naturalism.

Who is Jane Addams?

This person founded the Hull House and was a pioneer in social work, the peace movement and women's rights. She developed her socialized education philosophy and rejected the curriulcum that limited women's choices and opportunities.

What is education in the Southern colonies?

Education was based mostly on class and social status.

What is "A Nation at Risk" and the National Education Goals?

In 1983 this report was a call to action for the US and then in the year 1990, this was the reaction to that report (Hint: Educate America Act 1994).