Module 1: Historical and Current Impact of Educational Philosophies Notebook Activity 4

Question 1

Socrates

Answer 1

Created the Socratic Method of teaching. A way of teaching that centers on the use of questions by the teacher to lead students to a certain conclusion.

Believed that “knowledge is virtue.”

Question 2

Erasmus

Answer 2

Formed humanistic theory of education

Dutch renaissance humanist, catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian, wrote only in latin.

Question 3

Frederich Froebel

Answer 3

Established first kindergarten

Believed children have unique needs and capabilities and that women should teach young children.

Question 4

John Locke

Answer 4

Teachers needed to create a non threatening learning environment
Viewed young children mind as a blank slate (tabula rasa) on which an education could be imprinted.