200 MCQ on Education with answers.
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 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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