EDUC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Balance Wheel, Good And Evil, John Dewey

• School: UMD
• Department: Education, Educational Administration, Education Secondary
• Course: EDUC 1101
• Professor: Frank Guldbrandsen

Document Summary

Educ 1101: the allegory of the cave, prisoners in an underground den, chained, viewing the shadows on the wall in front of them, plato speaking of the shadow reality that we take for the real. If the prisoners could talk, they would know that they"re seeing shadows and echos, not reality: when the prisoner is released, the objects he now sees feel less true than the shadows he thought were reality. The apology: socrates" defense, the things socrates" accusers are saying about him are horrible a) #1: socrates asked people he thought were wise questions, but they were not wise at all (he thought) so they felt dumb and he made enemies out of them, socrates does not fear death because it is unknown. Horace mann: helped de ne college as we know it. Is a means of removing poverty and securing abundance: european theory: two classes- those who toil/earn and those who seize/ enjoy.