EDU 120 LECTURE EXAM WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 100% VERIFIED!!
Knowledge formation (human capital) for both individual and societal goals - Answer
>>What is the purpose of education?
1. Political goals of schooling
2. Social goals of schooling
3. Economic goals of schooling - Answer >>What are the three broad goals of schooling?
What is included in the political goals of teaching? - Answer >>Maintain political order,
prevent violence, cultivate leaders, etc
ex. Pledge of allegiance
What is included in the social goals of teaching? - Answer >>Character education,
health + sex education, social clubs, extracurriculars
ex. The food pyramid
What is included in the economic goals of teaching? - Answer >>Preparing individuals
for further schooling, anti poverty programs, compensatory schooling,
How is education a private good? - Answer >>One consumes the material; can't have it
taken away
How is education a public good? - Answer >>An educated individual is good for the
public; benefits to society in productive workforce
, Why is school compulsory? - Answer >>Partly to put young people in schools and out of
factories; safety for the streets; children as a vehicle to educate their families
The weird trend concerning satisfaction with own child's education vs satisfaction with
US schools as a whole - Answer >>Overwhelmingly parents are around 77% satisfied
with their own child's education BUT simultaneously are only 48% satisfied with US
education as a whole
What did pre- American Revolution (1700s) schools look like? - Answer >>Agricultural
society feat. "short term schools" (10-12 weeks per year); largely in the British colonies,
many charged fees
Who authored the first bill concerning widespread diffusion of education in 1779? -
Answer >>Thomas Jefferson authored "Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge"
in 1779
What would a Jefferson system of schooling look like? - Answer >>All white males
receiving education until a certain age whereafter the elites would be separated from
the regulars and trained to run the country
What main thing did Jefferson want to teach the American people via education in
schools? - Answer >>How to self govern; "The qualifications for self-government are not
innate. They are the result of habit and long training. Above all things I hope the
education of the common people will be attended to." --Jefferson, 1824
How were native Americans treated in early schools? - Answer >>Government funded
Indian boarding schools, often run by missionaries, to assimilate Indians to American
(European) values.
Who was Horace Mann? - Answer >>"Father of education"; Developed idea of education
as state responsibility funded by national gov; idea of "common education" in the nation
and "equalizing opportunity"; first Secretary to the Massachusetts State Board of
Education from 1837-1848
SOLUTIONS 100% VERIFIED!!
Knowledge formation (human capital) for both individual and societal goals - Answer
>>What is the purpose of education?
1. Political goals of schooling
2. Social goals of schooling
3. Economic goals of schooling - Answer >>What are the three broad goals of schooling?
What is included in the political goals of teaching? - Answer >>Maintain political order,
prevent violence, cultivate leaders, etc
ex. Pledge of allegiance
What is included in the social goals of teaching? - Answer >>Character education,
health + sex education, social clubs, extracurriculars
ex. The food pyramid
What is included in the economic goals of teaching? - Answer >>Preparing individuals
for further schooling, anti poverty programs, compensatory schooling,
How is education a private good? - Answer >>One consumes the material; can't have it
taken away
How is education a public good? - Answer >>An educated individual is good for the
public; benefits to society in productive workforce
, Why is school compulsory? - Answer >>Partly to put young people in schools and out of
factories; safety for the streets; children as a vehicle to educate their families
The weird trend concerning satisfaction with own child's education vs satisfaction with
US schools as a whole - Answer >>Overwhelmingly parents are around 77% satisfied
with their own child's education BUT simultaneously are only 48% satisfied with US
education as a whole
What did pre- American Revolution (1700s) schools look like? - Answer >>Agricultural
society feat. "short term schools" (10-12 weeks per year); largely in the British colonies,
many charged fees
Who authored the first bill concerning widespread diffusion of education in 1779? -
Answer >>Thomas Jefferson authored "Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge"
in 1779
What would a Jefferson system of schooling look like? - Answer >>All white males
receiving education until a certain age whereafter the elites would be separated from
the regulars and trained to run the country
What main thing did Jefferson want to teach the American people via education in
schools? - Answer >>How to self govern; "The qualifications for self-government are not
innate. They are the result of habit and long training. Above all things I hope the
education of the common people will be attended to." --Jefferson, 1824
How were native Americans treated in early schools? - Answer >>Government funded
Indian boarding schools, often run by missionaries, to assimilate Indians to American
(European) values.
Who was Horace Mann? - Answer >>"Father of education"; Developed idea of education
as state responsibility funded by national gov; idea of "common education" in the nation
and "equalizing opportunity"; first Secretary to the Massachusetts State Board of
Education from 1837-1848
