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(MCQs) with Answers on “Philosophical Foundations of Education”
(MCQs) with Answers on “Philosophical Foundations of Education”
1. What is the origin of the
word Education?
(a) ‘E’ and ‘Catum’
(b) Edu and ‘Catum’
(c) Word ‘Educate’
(d) None of these.
2. Which of the following
statements is correct?
(a) Education is an art
(b) Education is a science
(c) It is neither an art nor science
(d) To some extent it is art and to some extent it is
science.
3. What is called education
acquired without any specific purpose, fixed period and place?
(a) Indirect Education
(b) Individual Education
(c) Informal Education
(d) Formal Education.
4. Which one of the following
sentences is correct about the nature of teaching?
(a) It is diagnostic
(b) It is remedial
(c) It is diagnostic as well as remedial
(d) All the above statements are correct.
5. What is the compulsory
element of learning?
(a) Ability to read
(b) Bright Mind
(c) Tendency to know
(d) None of these.
6. What is the place of
principal in an educational institute?
(a) Overall head of the school
(b) Manager of the school
(c) Owner of the school
(d) Founder of the school.
7. If a student failed in any
class what should be done to him?
(a) He should be given a chance to improve and sent to the
next class after he improves
(b) He should be kept in the same class
(c) He should be advised to leave studies
(d) All the above methods are right.
8. Why are curriculum
activities used in teaching?
(a) Make teaching easy
(b) To make teaching interesting, easy to understand and effective
(c) To make teaching attractive
(d) To assist the teacher.
9. What are the three
components of the educational process?
(a) Education, teacher and books
(b) Teacher, student and education
(c) Teaching, learning and practice
(d) Direction, instruction and skill.
10. What is teaching through
deductive method?
(a) From general to specific
(b) From specific to general
(c) From macro to micro-
(d) From easy to difficult.
11. What is the main centre of
informal Education?
(a) Society
(b) Family
(c) Radio and Television
(d) All of the above.
12. Which is the first school
for a child’s education?
(a) Society
(b) Friends
(c) Family
(d) School.
13. Which one of the following
education systems supports scientific progress?
(a) Realistic Education
(b) Idealistic Education
(c) Naturalistic Education
(d) None of these.
14. What is the meaning of
lesson plan?
(a) To read the lesson before teaching it
(b) To prepare all that the teacher wants to teach in a
limited period
(c) To prepare detailed answers of all the questions to be
asked in the class
(d) To prepare the list of questions to be asked.
15. On what depends the values
of an educational experience in the eyes of the idealist?
(a) Whether or not the pupil has been properly motivated
(b) Whether or not it preserves accepted institutions
(c) The extent to which it satisfies pupil desires
(d) The manner in which it affects future experience.
16. Which educational activity
is most desirable to the pragmatist?
(a) Approximates the goals which educational scientists have
set up
(b) Results from the indiscrimination of the pupil in
democratic theory.
(c) That is beneficial effect upon the future experiences of
the pupil
(d) That characterizes by spontaneous, active, continuously
pleasurable and practical for the pupil.
17. What is the view point of
progressive educators regarding the issue of liberal vs. vocational education?
(a) Vocational ends load one to degrade learning
(b) Liberal arts subject should proceed vocational training
(c) Vocational and liberal education should not be separated
(d) All subjects should have a vocational orientation.
18. Who was the supporter of
Naturalism in Education?
(a) Frolbel
(b) Armstrong
(c) John Locke
(d) Rosseau.
19. What do you mean by
curriculum?
(a) A child learns through curriculum
(b) Sum total of the annual study
(c) Sum total of the activities of a school
(d) Indicates the course to be taught by the teachers to the
students throughout the year.
20. Which system of education
was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) Teaching by activities
(b) Teaching through music
(c) Teaching through listening, meditation etc.
(d) All of these.
21. Who raised the slogan “Back
to Nature”?
(a) Realism
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Naturalism
(d) Existentialism.
22. Which statement is not
correct about Naturalism?
(a) A reaction against the degenerated humanism of the
Renaissance period
(b) A reaction against the degenerated humanism of the
Renaissance period.
(c) A reaction against sophistication, artificiality and
paraphernalia in education
(d) A reaction against a mere study of books and linguistic
forms.
23. Who said, “Reverse the
usual practice and you will almost always do right?”
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Rousseau
(c) Dewey
(d) Plato.
24. “Human institutions are one
mass of folly and contradiction.” Whose statement is this?
(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) Rousseau
(c) Dewey
(d) Ravinder Nath Tagore.
25. According to which school
of philosophy of education, exaltation of individual’s personality is a
function of education?
(a) Pragmatism
(b) Idealism
(c) Marxism
(d) Idealism and Marxism both.
26. Which is not Naturalism’s
aim of Education?
(a) Education is the notion of man’s evolution from lower
forms of life
(b) To equip the individual or the nation for the struggle
for existence so as to ensure survival
(c) To help the pupils to learn to be in harmony with and
well-adapted to their surroundings
(d) To inculcate ethical and moral values in the pupils.
27. Which school held the view,
“God makes all things good; man meddles with and they become evil?”
(a) Marxism
(b) Existentialism
(c) Naturalism
(d) Pragmatism.
28. Which school maintained
self-expression with the accompanying cries of “no interference”, “no
restraints”?
(a) Extreme form of Naturalism
(b) Most widely accepted form of Naturalism
(c) Truest form of Naturalism
(d) Most valid form of Naturalism.
29. Which is not the nature of
philosophy?
(a) It is a science of knowledge
(b) It is a collective ensemble of various viewpoints
(c) It is a planned attempt on search for the truth
(d) It is the totality of man’s creative ideas.
30. Which branch of philosophy
deals with knowledge, its structure, method and validity?
(a) Logic
(b) Aesthetics
(c) Epistemology
(d) Metaphysics.
31. Which school maintained:
“Natural impulses of the child are of great importance and are good in
themselves?”
(a) Biological Naturalism
(b) Mechanical Naturalism
(c) Naturalism of physical science
(d) Romantic Naturalism.
32. Which branch of philosophy
examines issues pertaining to the nature of “reality?”
(a) Ontology
(b) Metaphysics
(c) Axiology
(d) Epistemology.
33. On what is based the need
for teaching philosophy of education?
(a) All pupils are not alike
(b) Different systems of education found in different
countries
(c) Different philosophies expressed different points of
view on every aspect of education
(d) Different ways of teaching-learning.
34. What is the goal of
education according to Idealism?
(a) Perfect adaptation to the environment
(b) Realisation of moral values
(c) Satisfaction of human wants
(d) Cultivation of dynamic, adaptable mind which will be
resourceful and enterprising in all situations.
35. The aim of education
according to the Existentialists is
(a) Humanitarian and humanist self- realization.
(b) Adaptation to practical life.
(c) Objective knowledge.
(d) A good understanding of the world outside.
36. The Realist’s aim of
education is
(a) Self-realization
(b) Spiritual and moral development
(c) Happy and moral development
(d) Total development of personality.
37. Naturalist’s conception of
man is
(a) Man’s very essence of being is his spiritual nature.
(b) It is spirit rather than animality that is most truly
man.
(c) There exists in the nature of things a perfect pattern
of each individual.
(d) Nature would have them children before they are men.
38. Which philosophy of
education considers psychology as an incomplete study of and an inadequate
basis of educational theory?
(a) Realism
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Idealism
(d) Naturalism.
39. Which among the following
does not fit into the scheme of educational goals of the Idealists?
(a) Care of body
(b) Moral values
(c) Skills
(d) Self-expression.
40. Religious education is
strongly advocated by
(a) Pragmatists.
(b) Idealists,
(c) Realist.
(d) Existentialists.
41. Which of the following is
said about the idealists?
(a) They are content with “briars”
(b) They like “roses”
(c) They are satisfied neither with “briars” nor with
“roses”
(d) They want “roses” and “briars” both.
42. Which school of philosophy
of education advocated Project method of teaching?
(a) Realism
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Idealism
(d) Naturalism.
43. Play way method of teaching
has been emphasised in the scheme of the education of
(a) Naturalists.
(b) Realists,
(c) Pragmatists.
(d) Existentialists.
44. Which is the most widely
accepted method of education, according to the pragmatists?
(a) Lecturing by the teacher.
(b) Leaving the child free to learn.
(c) Learning by doing.
(d) Heuristic method.
45. The pragmatists are against
(a) The external examinations
(b) The specialist teachers
(c) Breakdown of knowledge into separate subjects.
(d) Eternal spiritual values.
46. Pragmatism has a greater
sense of responsibility than Naturalism with regard to moral training because
(a) The free activity which pragmatic- system of education
entails does not mean licence; rather it means a guided activity.
(b) They emphasize teaching of values
(c) They consider education, basically, a social process.
(d) They do not want the teacher to abdicate from the scene.
47. Which of the following
claims of the pragmatists is not acceptable?
(a) The free activity of the pupil is likely to result in
permanent attitudes of initiative and independence and moral discipline
(b) Training in citizenship is possible through school and
community activities
(c) Training in character through school’s co-curricular
activities is possible
(d) Child’s own experience is valuable for adequate
development of child’s personality.
48. Project method of teaching
is an outstanding contribution of
(a) Realism.
(b) Pragmatism,
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Idealism.
49. Which is the characteristic
of the project method?
(a) Problematic act
(b) Carried in its natural setting
(c) Used for all-round-development of child’s personality.
(d) A voluntary undertaking.
50. Which among the following
is not essentially desirable in the project method?
(a) The task of the project is as real as the task of the
life outside the walls of the school
(b) The task of the project involves constructive effort or
thought yielding objective results
(c) The task of the project should be full of message for
the children
(d) The task of the project should be interesting enough so
that the pupil is genuinely eager to carry it out.
51. Which is a great
disadvantage of the project method?
(a) It consumes much of the time of the child
(b) It leaves gaps in the knowledge of the child
(c) Children are generally not interested in it
(d) Teachers, generally, do not like to teach through it.
52. Learning by Project Method
is technically known as
(a) Incidental learning.
(b) Efficient learning.
(c) Systematic learning.
(d) Adequate learning.
53. Education, according to the
Pragmatist is
(a) Wholly pupil-oriented.
(b) Wholly society-oriented.
(c) Wholly purposive.
(d) Wholly interdisciplinary.
54. Who among the following is
not a follower of Pragmatic Philosophy?
(a) William James
(b) Peshtalozzi
(c) John Dewey
(d) Kilpatrick.
55. What is not associated with
Pragmatism?
(a) Purposive education
(b) Experience-based education
(c) Freedom-based education
(d) Education for self-realization.
56. Who emphasised realization
of Truth, Beauty and Goodness as the aims of education?
(a) Idealists
(b) Pragmatists
(c) Realists
(d) Naturalists.
57. Which statement about truth
is not correct according to the philosophy of Pragmatism?
(a) It is made by man
(b) It is ever changing
(c) It is eternal
(d) It is what emerges to be true in actual practice.
58. In whose methodology of
teaching “Experimentation” is the key-note of?
(a) Idealism
(b) Existentialism
(c) Realism
(d) Pragmatism.
59. The term “progressive
education” related to
(a) Realism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Existentialism.
60. Who said, “No fixed aims of
education and no values in advance”?
(a) Progressive educators
(b) Idealists
(c) Realists
(d) Marxists.
61. Which school of philosophy
of education stresses the direct study of men and things through tours and
travels?
(a) Social realism
(b) Idealism
(c) Existentialism
(d) Marxism.
62. Which school believes that
all knowledge comes through the senses?
(a) Idealism
(b) Sense Realism
(c) Pragmatism
(d) Existentialism.
63. Which school raised the
slogan “Things as they are and as they are likely to be encountered in life
rather than words?”
(a) Pragmatist
(b) Realists
(c) Idealists
(d) Existentialists.
64. As Huxley pleaded for the
introduction of “a complete and thorough scientific culture” into schools, he
is claimed to be
(a) An Idealist.
(b) A Realist,
(c) A Pragmatist.
(d) A Naturalist.
65. Realism in education was
born out of
(a) The enthusiasm of the Renaissance.
(b) The great religious movement of the 17th century.
(c) A cleavage between the work of the schools and the life
of the world outside that occurred during the 19th century.
(d) The degeneration of humanism after Renaissance.
66. Which of the following is
not criticised by realism in education?
(a) Teachers denying the value of school co-curricular
activities
(b) Pupils cramming for knowledge from books for reproducing
in examination
(c) Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to
practical training in citizenship
(d) Teaching which drifts away from life of the child.
67. In the light of relevant
past events, contemporary events and their understanding should find a place
in the teaching of history. Who maintained this principle?
(a) Naturalists
(b) Idealists
(c) Realists
(d) Marxists.
68. The most important thing to
keep in mind for a teacher according to Realism in education is
(a) The method of teaching.
(b) The value and significance of what is taught.
(c) The nature of the child.
(d) Organization of the content to be taught.
69. Which school of philosophy
very strongly advocates that education should be vocational in character?
(a) Existentialism
(b) Naturalism
(c) Realism
(d) Pragmatism.
70. Which is not an aspect of
mind according to the Realists’ theory of knowing?
(a) Awareness
(b) Consciousness
(c) Behaviour
(d) Processing of awareness.
71. Who believe that “Objects
have a reality independent of mental phenomena”?
(a) Idealists
(b) Realists
(c) Naturalists
(d) Existentialists.
72. Marxist educational
philosophy is closer to
(a) Idealism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Pragmatism.
73. Which among the following
statements is not a characteristic of Marxism?
(a) It presupposes a reality independent of man’s mind
(b) Its educational philosophy is essentially materialistic
(c) Its major objective is the development of child’s
personality
(d) It asserts that physical environment can definitely
change the nature of the child.
74. Which school of philosophy
of education regrets dualism between cultural, and vocational curriculum?
(a) Marxism
(b) Idealism
(c) Existentialism
(d) Naturalism.
75. According to which
educational philosophy, socially useful labour must form the central pivot of
the entire school?
(a) Idealism
(b) Marxism
(c) Existentialism
(d) Naturalism.
76. Which of the following has
been asserted about schools by Marxist educational philosophy?
(a) They should stand above politics
(b) They should disinterestedly serve society as a whole
(c) They should function as deliberate instruments of state
policy
(d) They should not be mere weapons in the hands of the
ruling class.
77. Which of the following
characteristics is common to Pragmatism, Naturalism and Existentialism?
(a) Emphasis on spiritual aims of education
(b) Emphasis on the individual
(c) Emphasis on physical environment
(d) Emphasis on value education.
78. Whose is the ultimate
concern-“What is existence”?
(a) Idealists only
(b) Realists only
(c) Existentialists and Idealists both
(d) Existentialists only.
79. Which of the following
philosophies held that ‘Men in the world feel lonely and anxious, being unsure
of their meaning and fearful of their annihilation’ ?
(a) Existentialism
(b) Idealism
(c) Marxism
(d) Pragmatism.
80. According to
Existentialists, the essence of existence means
(a) Unity with the ultimate reality.
(b) Spiritual good and happiness.
(c) Tensions and contradictions which condition loneliness
and anxiety.
(d) Continuous growth and development.
81. Who was the nineteenth
century founder of Existentialism?
(a) Hegel
(b) Soren Kierkegaard
(c) Rousseau
(d) D.J. O’Connor.
82. Who was twentieth century
Existentialist?
(a) Soren Kierkegaard
(b) D.J. O’Connor
(c) Jean Paul Sartre
(d) Hegel.
83. Which of the following is
more generally acceptable by modern educationists?
(a) There should be one single aim of education unchangeable
over time and space
(b) There is one grand objective of education; and that is
the development of the inner nature of the child
(c) Contribution to the welfare of the society should be the
only aim of education
(d) Education is bound to have several aims since its
concerns are several such as the individual, the society, the family, the
nation and so on.
84. What is development of
human potentialities in education?
(a) Individual aim
(b) Social aim
(c) Individual as well as social aim
(d) Specific aim.
85. What is development of
social sense and cooperation among the individuals through education?
(a) Individual aim
(b) Social aim
(c) National aim
(d) Constitutional aim.
86. Which among the following
is not an acceptable criticism of social aims of education?
(a) They are anti-individual
(b) They are un-psychological as they do not take into
account the capacities and interests of the individual
(c) They hinder the growth and development of art and
literature
(d) Man, in them, becomes only a means to an end.
87. Which among the following
is not emphasized by the individual aims of education?
(a) Individual freedom
(b) Self-expression
(c) Development of inner potentialities.
(d) Development of values of tolerance and non-violence.
88. Which of the following
statements does not go in favour of the individual aims of education?
(a) The individual is an asset to the society; his
development and growth are necessary
(b) The society is strong if the individual is strong
(c) Every individual is unique; development of his
potentialities is essential
(d) Society is supreme and all individuals are only parts of
it.
89. Which among the following
is the most correct view about social and individual aims of education?
(a) Individual aims should be given preference to social
aims
(b) Social aims should be preferred to individual aims
(c) Individual aims are implied in the social aims of
education
(d) Individual and social aims are only two sides of the
same coin.
90. Which statement is most
acceptable to the academicians about “Bread and butter aim” of education?
(a) It is the most important aim and should be given top
priority by educationists
(b) It is equally important along with other aims of
education
(c) It is only partly acceptable
(d) It is important for only a section of the society.
91. Which of the following does
not pertain to intellectual development aim of education?
(a) Cultivation of intelligence
(b) Spiritual development
(c) Development of cognitive powers
(d) Training and “formation” of mind.
92. Preparing the child for
future life as an aim of education is preparing child for
(a) Some suitable vocation.
(b) Some particular course of study.
(c) Facing all kinds of emergencies and situations of future
life.
(d) A happy married life.
93. the most effective method
of character- formation is
(a) Teaching virtues through religious books.
(b) Organizing specialists’ lectures on importance of values
in life.
(c) Teaching by high character teachers.
(d) Rewarding virtuous behaviours and presenting high
character models in the schools.
94. Harmonious development of
the child aim of education means
(a) Development of all the qualities of the mind to the
maximum possible extent.
(b) Development of a sound mind in a sound body.
(c) Development of physical, mental, moral and spiritual
potentialities of the child in a balanced manner.
(d) Development of the adjustment capacities of the child.
95. The social aims of
education imply that
(a) The state is an idealized metaphysical entity.
(b) The state is above the individual citizen.
(c) The state is superior to the individual transcending all
his desires and aspirations.
(d) The state has to give not to take anything from the
individual.
96. Rigid system of
state-education is justified on the basis that the state
(a) Is supreme to dictate what shall be taught and how shall
be taught.
(b) Has absolute control over the lives, and destinies of
its individual members.
(c) Has a right and a bounden duty to mould the citizen to a
pattern which makes for its own preservation and enhancement.
(d) Has better resources to manage education.
97. Social aims of education
imply the training of
(a) The individuals for the purpose of serving the needs of
the society.
(b) Individuals according to their needs.
(c) The individuals according to their capacities.
(d) The individuals according to the facilities.
98. What does the individual
aim of education imply?
(a) Education must secure for everyone the conditions under
which the individuality is most completely developed
(b) It must contribute to the peace and happiness of the
whole society
(c) It should have more and more institutions every year
(d) It should be by and large the concern of the private
sector.
99. According to which
philosophy of education, childhood is something desirable for its own sake and
children should be children?
(a) Idealism
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Naturalism
(d) Realism.
100. Who emphasized that
education should be a social process?
(a) Vivekananda
(b) Rousseau
(c) Dewey
(d) Pestalozzi
Answer:
1. (a) 2. (d) 3 (c) 4. (d) 5.(c) 6. (b) 7. (a) 8. (d) 9.(b)
10. (a) 11. (d) 12.(c) 13. (a) 14. (a) 15. (b) 16. (a) 17. (b) 18. (d) 19. (d)
20. (d) 21. (c) 22. (d) 23. (b) 24. (b) 25. (d) 26. (d) 27. (c) 28. (a) 29. (d)
30. (c) 31. (a) 32. (b) 33. (c) 34. (b) 35. (a) 36.(c) 37. (d) 38. (c) 39. (a)
40. (b) 41. (c) 42. (b) 43. (a) 44. (c) 45. (c) 46. (a) 47. (a) 48. (b) 49. (c)
50. (c) 51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (c) 54. (b) 55. (d) 56. (a) 57. (c) 58. (d) 59. (b)
60. (a) 61. (a) 62. (b) 63. (b) 64. (b) 65. (c) 66. (c) 67. (c) 68. (b) 69. (c)
70. (c) 71. (b) 72. (b) 73. (c) 74. (a) 75. (b) 76.(c) 77. (b) 78. (c) 79. (a)
80. (c) 81. (b) 82. (c) 83. (d) 84. (a) 85. (b) 86. (a) 87. (d) 88. (d) 89. (d)
90. (c) 91. (b) 92.(c) 93. (d) 94. (c) 95. (d) 96. (c) 97. (a) 98. (a) 99. (c)
100. (c)
SYED IRFAN ABID BUKHARI 03336366260 spl-education.blogspot.com
Oh dear another quiz!!! Online quizzes are fun but it really reminds of how poor my general knowledge and IQ is LOL. I always do so poor at quizzes.
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