MCQ FOR EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY
1.What is the origin of the
word Education?
(EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY)
(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)
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