200 MCQ on Education with answers.
200 MCQ on Education with answers.
200 MCQ on Education with answers: Learn about the fundamentals of education with this comprehensive set of multiple-choice questions and answers. Perfect for students, teachers, and anyone else interested in learning more about education.
1. Every system of
education is based on?
a. Ideology of nation
b. Social development
c. Intellectual
development
d. Skill development
Answer a
2. Word philosophy is
derived from ?
a. Alpha and Amphia
b. Phila and Sophia
c. Sila and Sophia
d. Neo and Latvia
Answer b
3. Expected life outcomes
from education are referred as ?
a. Learning
b. Evaluation
c. Aims
d. Pedagogy
Answer c
4. Being the science of
wisdom philosophy aims at ?
a. Search for activity
b. Search for reality
c. Search for
probability
d. Search for utility
Answer b
5. The first head of the
Deoband was ?
A. Maulana shah wali ullah
B. Maulana M. Yaqub Nanautwi
C. Maulana Mehmood ul Hassan
D. Shabir Ahmand Usmani
Answer B
6. The Deoband academy was
totally ?
A. Personal
B. Government
C. Non government
D. Semi government
Answer C
7. The Deoband movement used
curriculum revision as ?
A. Motive
B. Need
C. Agreement
D. Improvement
Answer A
8. The Ulma of Deobond
played a vital role in ?
A. Spreading English cultures
B. Struggle for independence
C. Awarding scholarship
D. Science education
Answer B
9. The Deoband was
established in ?
A. 1857
B. 1867
C. 1885
D. 1866
Answer B
10. The
salient features of Deoband movement was ?
A. English system of education
B. Proliferation of science
C. Revival of religious
spirit
D. Literature
Answer C
11. The
Deoband movement ignored ?
A. Science
B. Philosophy
C. Logic
D. Religion
Answer A
12. M.A.O
High school was established in ?
A. 1857
B. 1865
C. 1875
D. 1885
Answer C
13. M.A.O
High school was given the rank of college in ?
A. 1864
B. 1877
C. 1889
D. 1842
Answer B
14. Scientific
society was established by ?
A. Sir Allama Iqbal
B. Sir syed Ahmad Khan
C. Maulana Muhammad Ali
johar
D. Quad e Azam
Answer B
15. M.A.O
colleghe was elevated to Aligarh university in ?
A. 1854
B. 1846
C. 1940
D. 1920
Answer D
16. The
major impact of the Aligarh movement was ?
A. Political training
B. Teaching of English
C. Social activities
D. Religious activities
Answer A
17. The
major objective of Aligarh movement was to promote ?
A. Education
B. Hatred for Hinds
C. Scientific look
D. Literacy
Answer C
18. Which
one was not among the purposes of Aligarh movement ?
A. To reduce hatred of British
B. To prepose Muslims to
learn English
C. To prepare Muslims
against Hindus
D. To prepare Muslims to learn
science
Answer C
19. Jamia
Millia Islamia was established on ?
A. 1900
B. 1930
C. 1974
D. 1962
Answer B
20. Jamia
Millia Islamia was established by ?
A. Sir syed Ahmad khan
B. Moulana shaukat ali johar
C. Hakeem ajmal
D. Moulana M. Ali johar
Answer D
21. In
Jamia Milllia, the medium of instruction was?
A. English
B. Arabic
C. Son
D. Urdu
Answer D
22. In
jamia millia , the translation of Holy Quran was taught as ?
A. Stage 1
B. Stage 2
C. Stage 3
D. Stage 4
Answer A
23. Jamia
Millia could not became popular among Muslims due to its oppostion to ?
A. Hindus
B. British
C. Two nation theory
D. Tehrik e khilafat
Answer C
24. Jamia
Millia emphasized on ?
A. Religious education
B. Science education
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
Answer C
25. Anjman
Himayat e Islam was established in ?
A. Lahore
B. Lucknow
C. Dehli
D. Calcuta
Answer A
26. Anjman
Himayat e Islam was established on ?
A. 1887
B. 1854
C. 1896
D. 1874
Answer A
27. The
founder of Anjman Hamayat e Islam was ?
A. Sir syed Ahmad khan
B. Caliph Hamid ud Din
C. Molana shibli nomani
D. Allam iqbal
Answer B
28. Nadva
tul ulema was established on ?
A. 1894
B. 1852
C. 1864
Answer B
A. Nadua 1879
Answer A
29. Nadva
Tul Ulema was established in ?
A. Dehli
B. Lucknow
C. Deoban
D. Aligar
30. Tul
Ulema was established on the initiative of ?
A. Molana shibli nomani
B. Sir syed Ahmad khan
C. Caliph Hamid ud Din
D. Molana Ali johar
Answer A
31. The
first adminstrator of Nadva Tul Ulema was ?
A. Molana Shibli Nomani
B. Sir syed Ahmad khan
C. Molana Ali johar
D. Molana M. Ali Mangheri
Answer D
32. Education
conference 1947 was held in ?
A. Peshawar
B. Lahore
C. Quetta
D. Karachi
Answer D
33. Education
conference 1947 was presided by ?
A. Quaid e Azam
B. Fazal ur Rehman
C. Liaqat ali khan
D. Abdul Rub Nishtar
Answer B
34. Objective
of education under education conference 1947 were ?
A. Conformity with Ideology of
life
B. Economic development
C. Character formation
D. All of above
Answer D
35. According
to the recommendations of Indian Education Commission, govt. took the
responsibility of ?
A. Primary education
B. Secondary education
C. Religeous education
D. Higher education
Answer A
36. Council
of Technical Education was recommended to establish under ?
A. Education conference 1947
B. National Education
commission 1959
C. National education policy
1970
D. Natural education policy 1972
Answer A
37. National
Education Commission 1959 was established under the headship of ?
A. Fazal ur Rhman
B. Liaqat ali khan
C. S.M Sharif
D. Abdul rub nishtar
Answer C
38. Objectives
of education under National Education Commission 1959 were ?
A. Spritual values
B. Ideology of pakistan
C. Development of
individuality
D. All of the above
Answer D
39. Text
Book Board was recommended to establish under ?
A. Education conference 1947
B. National Education
commission 1959
C. National education policy
1970
D. Natural education policy 1972
Answer B
40. National
Education Policy 1970 was headed by ?
A. Fazal ur Rehman
B. S.M Sharif
C. Noor khan
D. Abdul Hafeez Pirzada
Answer D
41. Private
educational institutions were nationalized under ?
A. Education conference 1947
B. National Education
commission 1959
C. National education policy
1970
D. Natural education policy 1972
Answer C
42. Under
National Education Policy 1972, free education was recommended upto class ?
A. 5
B. 12
C. 10
D. 18
Answer C
43. Open
University was established under the policy ?
A. 1972
B. 1985
C. 1964
D. 1932
Answer A
44. The
focus of national education policy 1978 was on ?
A. Islamic values
B. Ideology of Pakistan
C. Both a and b
D. None
Answer C
45. Charter
Act was presented in ?
A. 1800
B. 1813
C. 1800
D. 1820
Answer B
46. According
to charter Act 1813, education is the responsibility of ?
A. Governor
B. East India company
C. Madarus
D. Local Govt
Answer B
47. The
amount set apart by East India Company for educational purpose will be RS. ?
A. 100000
B. 15000
C. 1400
D. 12000
Answer A
48. The
objective of education according to charter act was ?
A. Islamic education
B. Technical education
C. Preaching Christianity
D. Preaching Hinduism
Answer C
49. The
medium of instruction for promotion of scientific knowledge according to
charter Act will be ?
A. Urdu
B. Hindi
C. English
D. Sansikrit
Answer C
50. The
charter Act of East India Company was renewed in ?
A. 1833
B. 1844
C. 1855
D. 1952
Answer A
51. East
India Company could not implement charter Act for ?
A. 5 years
B. 10 years
C. 8 years
D. 4 years
Answer B
52. Lord
Macaulay/Bentick Resolution was passed in?
A. 1852
B. 1835
C. 1946
D. 1742
Answer B
53. Which
is not the characteristic of Lord Macaulay Report ?
A. Revival of eastern knowledge
B. Proliferation of western
knowledge
C. English a instruction
medium
D. All of above
Answer A
54. According
to Lord Macaulay one purpose of education was ?
A. To develop moral values
B. To produce clerks
C. Intelectual development
D. Physical development
Answer B
55. Charles
wood Dispatch was presented in ?
A. 1854
B. 1833
C. 1854
D. 1920
Answer C
56. Under
wood Dispatch in 1857, three universities established were ?
A. Bombay , Calcutta , Madras
B. Karachi
C. Peshawar
D. Lahore
Answer A
57. Punjab
University was established in ?
A. 1887
B. 1892
C. 1854
D. 1974
Answer A
58. Indian
education commisssion was established under headship of ?
A. Sir Cahasles wood
B. Lord Maculay
C. Sir William Hunter
D. Sir Thomas
Answer C
59. What
is Curriculum?
A. Overall activities of an
Institution
B. Objectivity
C. Classroom
D. Affective
Answer A
60. Important
factor of curriculum is to help to achieve the?
A. Objectivity
B. Classroom
C. Affective
D. Students
Answer A
61. Responsible
for the curriculum planning and development in Pakistani is?
A. Objectivity
B. Curriculum wing
C. Affective
D. Students
Answer B
62. Which
domain of objectives is not being evaluated through our present system of
examination?
A. Objectivity
B. Classroom
C. Affective
D. Students
Answer C
63. Which
of the following is the nature of curriculum?
A. Conservative
B. Critical
C. Creative
D. All of these
Answer D
64.Curriculum
provides guidance for?
A. Student
B. School
C. Parents
D. Teacher
Answer A
65. Syllabus
is a part of?
A. Student
B. School
C. Parents
D. Curriculum
Answer D
66. Benefits
A.V Aids are that they?
A. Create interest
B. Reduce verbalization
C. Stimulate self activity
D. All of above
Answer D
67. Curriculum
presents instructional material is stated by
A. Smith
B. Wheller
C. Jack kerr
D. None
Answer A
68. Relationship
of subjects at different level is called?
A. Centralization
B. De centralization
C. Horizontal organization
D. Vertical organization
Answer D
69. An
outline of the topics of a subject to the covered in specific time is called?
A. Curriculum
B. Course
C. Syllabus
D. None
Answer C
70. Curriculum
organization used for different concepts at the same class is?
A. Vertical
B. Horizontal
C. Logical
D. None
Answer B
71. The
category of Audio Visual Aids is?
A. Radio
B. Television
C. Tape recorder
D. All of these
Answer D
72. Major
concern of curriculum is?
A. Personal satisfaction
B. Change in individuals
behavior
C. Preparation for service
D. None
Answer B
73. The
importance of curriculum in the system of education is just like a?
A. Constitution in a country
B. Provision of latest
knowledge
C. Preparation of students
for service
D. None
Answer A
74. Curriculum
is supposed to?
A. Achieve the objectives
B. Be organized by the
school
C. Both
D. None
Answer C
75. Curriculum
reflects the culture of?
A. Society
B. Home
C. School
D. Area
Answer A
76. The
outline of the contents is?
A. Course
B. Syllabus
C. Programe
D. All above
Answer B
77. Component
of curriculum is?
A. Evaluation
B. Objectives
C. Teaching strategies
D. All
Answer D
78. Models
of curriculum presently being used at any stage in Pakistan is?
A. Activity
B. Subject
C. Integrated
D. All of above
Answer D
79. The
selection of the particular design is influenced by?
A. Types
B. Elements
C. Foundation
D. Principle
Answer C
80. Intelligence
level of gifted student is?
A. 140 and above
B. 110
C. 90
D. None
Answer A
81. The
scope of curriculum include
A. Programme of studies
B. Programme of Activites
C. Programme of Guidance
D. All
Answer D
82. The
concise Oxford Dictionary defines curriculum as a?
A. Course of learning
B. Chariot race course
C. Course of study
D. None
Answer B
83. The
model of curriculum could not move above elementary stage is?
A. Core curriculum
B. Activity curriculum
C. Subject curriculum
D. None
Answer B
84. Detailed
contents of the subjects for a class are called?
A. Course
B. Behavior
C. Design
D. Logical sequence
Answer A
85. A
curriculum is the sum total of a school efforts to influence a child?
A. Course
B. Behavior
C. Design
D. Logical sequence
Answer B
86. Percentage
of knowledge gained through observation is?
A. 75 %
B. 50 %
C. 34%
D. None
Answer A
87. The
base on which the subject activities and experience are planned is called?
A. Course
B. Behavior
C. Design
D. Logical sequence
Answer C
88. Keeping
in view the types of students in a class are generally grouped as?
A. Average
B. Below average
C. Above average
D. All
Answer D
89. Logical
order of content organization is to arrange the content according to?
A. Course
B. Behavior
C. Design
D. Logical sequence
Answer D
90. Summative
evaluation takes place?
A. In the beginning
B. At the end
C. In the middle
D. None
Answer B
91. Without
suitable curriculum, aims of education
A. Can be achieved
B. Cannot be achieved
C. Can be changed
D. None
Answer B
92. How
many basic components of curriculum have?
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 8
Answer B
93. Curriculum
development refers to the total process of curriculum?
A. Designing
B. Implementing
C. Evaluating
D. All
Answer D
94. Which
one is not the component of the curriculum?
A. Design
B. Evaluation
C. Curriculum design
D. Abilities
Answer A
95. Effectiveness
of curriculum is determined by?
A. Design
B. Evaluation
C. Curriculum design
D. Abilities
Answer B
96. The
arrangement of the elements of the curriculum can be defined as?
A. Design
B. Evaluation
C. Curriculum design
D. Abilities
Answer C
97. The
term “core curriculum” is sometimes simply called?
A. Core
B. Code
C. Cope
D. None
Answer A
98. The
method used to evaluate the curriculum is?
A. Formative Evaluation
B. Summative Evaluation
C. Diagnostic Evaluation
D. A B C
Answer D
99. On
way of finding out, what is going on in a class room is?
A. Observation
B. Education psychology
C. Foundation of curriculum
D. Is the purpose of life?
Answer A
100. When, what, why
and How, to teach is the main task of?
A. Observation
B. Education psychology
C. Foundation of curriculum
D. Is the purpose of life?
Answer B
101. What is the origin of the word Education?
A. ‘E’ and ‘Catum’
B. Edu and ‘Catum’
C. Word ‘Educate’
D. None of these.
Answer A
102. 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.
Answer D
103. 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.
Answer C
104. 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.
Answer D
105. What is the compulsory element of learning?
(a) Ability to read
(b) Bright Mind
(c) Tendency to know
(d) None of these.
Answer C
106. 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.
Answer B
107. 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.
Answer A
108. 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.
Answer D
109. 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.
Answer B
110. 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.
Answer A
111. What is the main centre of informal Education?
(a) Society
(b) Family
(c) Radio and Television
(d) All of the above.
Answer D
112. Which is the first school for a child’s
education?
(a) Society
(b) Friends
(c) Family
(d) School.
Answer C
113. Which one of the following education systems
supports scientific progress?
(a) Realistic Education
(b) Idealistic Education
(c) Naturalistic Education
(d) None of these.
Answer A
114. 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.
Answer A
115. 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.
Answer B
116. 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.
Answer A
117. 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.
Answer: B
118. Who was the supporter of Naturalism in
Education?
(a) Frolbel
(b) Armstrong
(c) John Locke
(d) Rosseau.
Answer: D
119. 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.
Answer: D
120. 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.
Answer: D
121. Who raised the slogan “Back to Nature”?
(a) Realism
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Naturalism
(d) Existentialism.
Answer: C
122. 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.
Answer: D
123. Who said, “Reverse the usual practice and you
will almost always do right?”
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Rousseau
(c) Dewey
(d) Plato.
Answer: B
124. “Human institutions are one mass of folly and
contradiction.” Whose statement is this?
(a) Bernard Shaw
(b) Rousseau
(c) Dewey
(d) Ravinder Nath Tagore.
Answer: B
125. 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.
Answer: D
126. 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.
Answer: D
127. 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.
Answer: C
128. 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.
Answer: A
129. 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.
Answer: D
130. Which branch of philosophy deals with
knowledge, its structure, method and validity?
(a) Logic
(b) Aesthetics
(c) Epistemology
(d) Metaphysics.
Answer: C
131. 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.
Answer: A
132. Which branch of philosophy examines issues
pertaining to the nature of “reality?”
(a) Ontology
(b) Metaphysics
(c) Axiology
(d) Epistemology.
Answer: B
133. 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.
Answer: C
134. 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.
Answer: B
135. 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.
Answer: A
136. 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.
Answer: C
137. 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.
Answer: D
138. 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.
Answer: C
139. 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.
Answer: A
140. Religious education is strongly advocated by
(a) Pragmatists.
(b) Idealists,
(c) Realist.
(d) Existentialists.
Answer: B
141. 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.
Answer: C
142. Which school of philosophy of education
advocated Project method of teaching?
(a) Realism
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Idealism
(d) Naturalism.
Answer: B
143. Play way method of teaching has been
emphasised in the scheme of the education of
(a) Naturalists.
(b) Realists,
(c) Pragmatists.
(d) Existentialists.
Answer: A
144. 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.
Answer: C
145. The pragmatists are against
(a) The external examinations
(b) The specialist teachers
(c) Breakdown of knowledge into separate subjects.
(d) Eternal spiritual values.
Answer: C
146. 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.
Answer: A
147. 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.
Answer: A
148. Project method of teaching is an outstanding
contribution of
(a) Realism.
(b) Pragmatism,
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Idealism.
Answer: B
149. 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.
Answer: C
150. 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.
Answer: C
151. 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.
Answer: B
152. Learning by Project Method is technically
known as
(a) Incidental learning.
(b) Efficient learning.
(c) Systematic learning.
(d) Adequate learning.
Answer: A
153. Education, according to the Pragmatist is
(a) Wholly pupil-oriented.
(b) Wholly society-oriented.
(c) Wholly purposive.
(d) Wholly interdisciplinary.
Answer: C
154. Who among the following is not a follower of
Pragmatic Philosophy?
(a) William James
(b) Peshtalozzi
(c) John Dewey
(d) Kilpatrick.
Answer: B
155. What is not associated with Pragmatism?
(a) Purposive education
(b) Experience-based education
(c) Freedom-based education
(d) Education for self-realization.
Answer: D
156. Who emphasised realization of Truth, Beauty
and Goodness as the aims of education?
(a) Idealists
(b) Pragmatists
(c) Realists
(d) Naturalists.
Answer: A
157. 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.
Answer: C
158. In whose methodology of teaching
“Experimentation” is the key-note of?
(a) Idealism
(b) Existentialism
(c) Realism
(d) Pragmatism.
Answer: D
159. The term “progressive education” related to
(a) Realism.
(b) Pragmatism.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Existentialism.
Answer: B
160. Who said, “No fixed aims of education and no
values in advance”?
(a) Progressive educators
(b) Idealists
(c) Realists
(d) Marxists.
Answer: A
161. 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.
Answer: A
162. Which school believes that all knowledge comes
through the senses?
(a) Idealism
(b) Sense Realism
(c) Pragmatism
(d) Existentialism.
Answer: B
163. 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.
Answer: B
164. 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.
Answer: B
165. 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.
Answer: C
166. 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.
Answer: C
167. 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.
Answer: C
168. 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.
Answer: B
169. Which school of philosophy very strongly
advocates that education should be vocational in character?
(a) Existentialism
(b) Naturalism
(c) Realism
(d) Pragmatism.
Answer: C
170. Which is not an aspect of mind according to
the Realists’ theory of knowing?
(a) Awareness
(b) Consciousness
(c) Behaviour
(d) Processing of awareness.
Answer: C
171. Who believe that “Objects have a reality
independent of mental phenomena”?
(a) Idealists
(b) Realists
(c) Naturalists
(d) Existentialists.
Answer: B
172. Marxist educational philosophy is closer to
(a) Idealism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Naturalism.
(d) Pragmatism.
Answer: B
173. 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.
Answer: C
174. Which school of philosophy of education
regrets dualism between cultural, and vocational curriculum?
(a) Marxism
(b) Idealism
(c) Existentialism
(d) Naturalism.
Answer: A
175. 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.
Answer: B
176. 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.
Answer: C
177. 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.
Answer: B
178. Whose is the ultimate concern-“What is
existence”?
(a) Idealists only
(b) Realists only
(c) Existentialists and Idealists both
(d) Existentialists only.
Answer: C
179. 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.
Answer: A
180. 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.
Answer: C
181. Who was the nineteenth century founder of
Existentialism?
(a) Hegel
(b) Soren Kierkegaard
(c) Rousseau
(d) D.J. O’Connor.
Answer: B
182. Who was twentieth century Existentialist?
(a) Soren Kierkegaard
(b) D.J. O’Connor
(c) Jean Paul Sartre
(d) Hegel.
Answer: C
183. 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.
Answer: D
184. What is development of human potentialities in
education?
(a) Individual aim
(b) Social aim
(c) Individual as well as social aim
(d) Specific aim.
Answer: A
185. 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.
Answer: B
186. 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.
Answer: A
187. 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.
Answer: D
188. 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.
Answer: D
189. 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.
Answer: D
190. 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.
Answer: C
191. 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.
Answer:B
192. 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.
Answer:C
193. 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.
Answer:D
194. 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.
Answer:C
195. 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.
Answer:D
196. 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.
Answer:C
197. 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.
Answer:A
198. 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.
Answer:A
199. 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.
Answer :C
200. Who emphasized that education should be a
social process?
(a) Vivekananda
(b) Rousseau
(c) Dewey
(d) Pestalozzi
Answer:C
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