1. What is the origin of the word Education? (d) From easy to difficult.

(a) ‘E’ and ‘Catum’

(b) Edu and ‘Catum’ 11. What is the main focus of informal Education?
(c) Word ‘Educate’ (a) Society
(d) None of these. (b) Family
(c) Radio and Television
2. Which of the following statements is correct? (d) All of the above.
(a) Education is an art
(b) Education is a science 12. Which is the first school for a child’s education?
(c) It is neither an art nor science (a) Society
(d) To some extent it is art and to some extent it is (b) Friends
science. (c) Family
(d) School.
3. What is called education acquired without any specific
purpose, fixed period and place? 13. Which one of the following education systems
(a) Indirect Education supports scientific progress?
(b) Individual Education (a) Realistic Education
(c) Informal Education (b) Idealistic Education
(d) Formal Education. (c) Naturalistic Education
(d) None of these.
4. Which one of the following sentences is correct about
the nature of teaching? 14. What is the meaning of lesson plan?
(a) It is diagnostic (a) To read the lesson before teaching it
(b) It is remedial (b) To prepare all that the teacher wants to teach in a
(c) It is diagnostic as well as remedial limited period
(d) All the above statements are correct. (c) To prepare detailed answers of all the questions to
be asked in the class
5. What is the compulsory element of learning? (d) To prepare the list of questions to be asked.
(a) Ability to read
(b) Bright Mind 15. On what contingent the values of an educational
(c) Tendency to know experience in the eyes of the idealist?
(d) None of these. (a) Whether or not the pupil has been properly
motivated
6. What is the place of principal in an educational (b) Whether or not it preserves accepted institutions
institute? (c) The extent to which it satisfies pupil desires
(a) Overall head of the school (d) The manner in which it affects future experience.
(b) Manager of the school
(c) Owner of the school 16. Which educational activity is most desirable to the
(d) Founder of the school. pragmatist?
(a) Approximates the goals which educational scientists
7. If a student failed in any class what should be done have set up
to him? (b) Results from the indiscrimination of the pupil in
(a) He should be given a chance to improve and sent to democratic theory.
the next class after he improves (c) That is beneficial effect upon the future experiences
(b) He should be kept in the same class of the pupil
(c) He should be advised to leave studies (d) That characterizes by spontaneous, active,
(d) All the above methods are right. continuously pleasurable and practical for the pupil.

8. Why are curriculum activities used in teaching? 17. What is the view point of progressive educators
(a) Make teaching easy regarding the issue of liberal vs. vocational education?
(b) To make teaching interesting, easy to understand (a) Vocational ends load one to degrade learning
and effective (b) Liberal arts subject should precede vocational
(c) To make teaching attractive training
(d) To assist the teacher. (c) Vocational and liberal education should not be
separated
9. What are the three components of the educational (d) All subjects should have a vocational orientation.
process?
(a) Education, teacher and books 18. Who was the supporter of Naturalism in Education?
(b) Teacher, student and education (a) Frobel
(c) Teaching, learning and practice (b) Armstrong
(d) Direction, instruction and skill. (c) John Locke
(d) Rousseau.
10. What is teaching through deductive method?
(a) From general to specific 19. What do you mean by curriculum?
(b) From specific to general (a) A child learns through curriculum
(c) From macro to micro- (b) Sum total of the annual study
(c) Sum total of the activities of a school 28. Which school maintained self-expression with the
(d) Indicates the course to be taught by the teachers to accompanying cries of “no interference”, “no
the students throughout the year. restraints”?
(a) Extreme form of Naturalism
20. Which system of education was advocated by (b) Most widely accepted form of Naturalism
Mahatma Gandhi? (c) Truest form of Naturalism
(a) Teaching by activities (d) Most valid form of Naturalism.
(b) Teaching through music
(c) Teaching through listening, meditation etc. 29. Which is not the nature of philosophy?
(d) All of these. (a) It is a science of knowledge
(b) It is a collective ensemble of various viewpoints
21. Who raised the slogan “Back to Nature”? (c) It is a planned attempt on search for the truth
(a) Realism (d) It is the totality of man’s creative ideas.
(b) Pragmatism
(c) Naturalism 30. Which branch of philosophy deals with knowledge,
(d) Existentialism. its structure, method and validity?
(a) Logic
22. Which statement is not correct about Naturalism? (b) Aesthetics
(a) A reaction against the degenerated humanism of the (c) Epistemology
Renaissance period (d) Metaphysics.
(b) A reaction against the degenerated humanism of the
Renaissance period. 31. Which school maintained: “Natural impulses of the
(c) A reaction against sophistication, artificiality and child are of great importance and are good in
paraphernalia in education themselves?”
(d) A reaction against a mere study of books and (a) Biological Naturalism
linguistic forms. (b) Mechanical Naturalism
(c) Naturalism of physical science
23. Who said, “Reverse the usual practice and you will (d) Romantic Naturalism.
almost always do right?”
(a) Mahatma Gandhi 32. Which branch of philosophy examines issues
(b) Rousseau pertaining to the nature of “reality?”
(c) Dewey (a) Ontology
(d) Plato. (b) Metaphysics
(c) Axiology
24. “Human institutions are one mass of folly and (d) Epistemology.
contradiction.” Whose statement is this?
(a) Bernard Shaw 33. On what is based the need for teaching philosophy
(b) Rousseau of education?
(c) Dewey (a) All pupils are not alike
(d) Tagore. (b) Different systems of education found in different
countries
25. According to which school of philosophy of (c) Different philosophies expressed different points of
education, exaltation of individual’s personality is a view on every aspect of education
function of education? (d) Different ways of teaching-learning.
(a) Pragmatism
(b) Idealism 34. What is the goal of education according to Idealism?
(c) Marxism (a) Perfect adaptation to the environment
(d) Idealism and Marxism both. (b) Realisation of moral values
(c) Satisfaction of human wants
26. Which is not Naturalism’s aim of Education? (d) Cultivation of dynamic, adaptable mind which will be
(a) Education is the notion of man’s evolution from resourceful and enterprising in all situations.
lower forms of life
(b) To equip the individual or the nation for the struggle 35. The aim of education according to the Existentialists
for existence so as to ensure survival is
(c) To help the pupils to learn to be in harmony with and (a) Humanitarian and humanist self- realization.
well-adapted to their surroundings (b) Adaptation to practical life.
(d) To inculcate ethical and moral values in the pupils. (c) Objective knowledge.
(d) A good understanding of the world outside.
27. Which school held the view, “God makes all things
good; man meddles with and they become evil?” 36. The Realist’s aim of education is
(a) Marxism (a) Self-realization
(b) Existentialism (b) Spiritual and moral development
(c) Naturalism (c) Happy and moral development
(d) Pragmatism. (d) Total development of personality.

37. Naturalist’s conception of man is

(a) Man’s very essence of being is his spiritual nature. (a) The free activity which pragmatic- system of
(b) It is spirit rather than animality that is most truly education entails does not mean licence; rather it
man. means a guided activity.
(c) There exists in the nature of things a perfect pattern (b) They emphasize teaching of values
of each individual. (c) They consider education, basically, a social process.
(d) Nature would have them children before they are (d) They do not want the teacher to abdicate from the
men. scene.

38. Which philosophy of education considers psychology 47. Which of the following claims of the pragmatists is
as an incomplete study of and an inadequate basis of not acceptable?
educational theory? (a) The free activity of the pupil is likely to result in
(a) Realism permanent attitudes of initiative and independence and
(b) Pragmatism moral discipline
(c) Idealism (b) Training in citizenship is possible through school and
(d) Naturalism. community activities
(c) Training in character through school’s co-curricular
39. Which among the following does not fit into the activities is possible
scheme of educational goals of the Idealists? (d) Child’s own experience is valuable for adequate
(a) Care of body development of child’s personality.
(b) Moral values
(c) Skills 48. Project method of teaching is an outstanding
(d) Self-expression. contribution of
(a) Realism.
40. Religious education is strongly advocated by (b) Pragmatism,
(a) Pragmatists. (c) Naturalism.
(b) Idealists, (d) Idealism.
(c) Realist.
(d) Existentialists. 49. Which is the characteristic of the project method?
(a) Problematic act
41. Which of the following is said about the idealists? (b) Carried in its natural setting
(a) They are content with “briars” (c) Used for all-round-development of child’s
(b) They like “roses” personality.
(c) They are satisfied neither with “briars” nor with (d) A voluntary undertaking.
“roses”
(d) They want “roses” and “briars” both. 50. Which among the following is not essentially
desirable in the project method?
42. Which school of philosophy of education advocated (a) The task of the project is as real as the task of the
Project method of teaching? life outside the walls of the school
(a) Realism (b) The task of the project involves constructive effort
(b) Pragmatism or thought yielding objective results
(c) Idealism (c) The task of the project should be full of message for
(d) Naturalism. the children
(d) The task of the project should be interesting enough
43. Play way method of teaching has been emphasised so that the pupil is genuinely eager to carry it out.
in the scheme of the education of
(a) Naturalists. 51. Which is a great disadvantage of the project
(b) Realists, method?
(c) Pragmatists. (a) It consumes much of the time of the child
(d) Existentialists. (b) It leaves gaps in the knowledge of the child
(c) Children are generally not interested in it
44. Which is the most widely accepted method of (d) Teachers, generally, do not like to teach through it.
education, according to the pragmatists?
(a) Lecturing by the teacher.
(b) Leaving the child free to learn. 52. Learning by Project Method is technically known as
(c) Learning by doing. (a) Incidental learning.
(d) Heuristic method. (b) Efficient learning.
(c) Systematic learning.
45. The pragmatists are against (d) Adequate learning.
(a) The external examinations
(b) The specialist teachers 53. Education, according to the Pragmatist is
(c) Breakdown of knowledge into separate subjects. (a) Wholly pupil-oriented.
(d) Eternal spiritual values. (b) Wholly society-oriented.
(c) Wholly purposive.
46. Pragmatism has a greater sense of responsibility (d) Wholly interdisciplinary.
than Naturalism with regard to moral training because
54. Who among the following is not a follower of (b) Realists
Pragmatic Philosophy? (c) Idealists
(a) William James (d) Existentialists.
(b) Pestalozzi
(c) John Dewey 64. As Huxley pleaded for the introduction of “a
(d) Kilpatrick. complete and thorough scientific culture” into schools,
he is claimed to be
55. What is not associated with Pragmatism? (a) An Idealist.
(a) Purposive education (b) A Realist,
(b) Experience-based education (c) A Pragmatist.
(c) Freedom-based education (d) A Naturalist.
(d) Education for self-realization.
65. Realism in education was born out of
56. Who emphasised realization of Truth, Beauty and (a) The enthusiasm of the Renaissance.
Goodness as the aims of education? (b) The great religious movement of the 17th century.
(a) Idealists (c) A cleavage between the work of the schools and the
(b) Pragmatists life of the world outside that occurred during the 19th
(c) Realists century.
(d) Naturalists. (d) The degeneration of humanism after Renaissance.

57. Which statement about truth is not correct according 66. Which of the following is not criticised by realism in
to the philosophy of Pragmatism? education?
(a) It is made by man (a) Teachers denying the value of school co-curricular
(b) It is ever changing activities
(c) It is eternal (b) Pupils cramming for knowledge from books for
(d) It is what emerges to be true in actual practice. reproducing in examination
(c) Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to
58. In whose methodology of teaching practical training in citizenship
“Experimentation” is the key-note of? (d) Teaching which drifts away from life of the child.
(a) Idealism
(b) Existentialism 67. In the light of relevant past events, con temporary
(c) Realism events and their understanding should find a place in
(d) Pragmatism. the teaching of history. Who maintained this principle?
(a) Naturalists
59. The term “progressive education” related to (b) Idealists
(a) Realism. (c) Realists
(b) Pragmatism. (d) Marxists.
(c) Idealism.
(d) Existentialism. 68. The most important thing to keep in mind for a
teacher according to Realism in education is
60. Who said, “No fixed aims of education and no values (a) The method of teaching.
in advance”? (b) The value and significance of what is taught.
(a) Progressive educators (c) The nature of the child.
(b) Idealists (d) Organization of the content to be taught.
(c) Realists
(d) Marxists. 69. Which school of philosophy very strongly advocates
that education should be vocational in character?
61. Which school of philosophy of education stresses the (a) Existentialism
direct study of men and things through tours and (b) Naturalism
travels? (c) Realism
(a) Social realism (d) Pragmatism.
(b) Idealism
(c) Existentialism 70. Which is not an aspect of mind according to the
(d) Marxism. Realists’ theory of knowing?
(a) Awareness
62. Which school believes that all knowledge comes (b) Consciousness
through the senses? (c) Behaviour
(a) Idealism (d) Processing of awareness.
(b) Sense Realism
(c) Pragmatism 71. Who believe that “Objects have a reality
(d) Existentialism. independent of mental phenomena”?
(a) Idealists
63. Which school raised the slogan “Things as they are b) Realists
and as they are likely to be encountered in life rather (c) Naturalists
than words?” (d) Existentialists.
(a) Pragmatist
72. Marxist educational philosophy is closer to (d) Continuous growth and development.
(a) Idealism.
(b) Realism. 81. Who was the nineteenth century founder of
(c) Naturalism. Existentialism?
(d) Pragmatism. (a) Hegel
(b) Soren Kierkegaard
73. Which among the following statements is not a (c) Rousseau
characteristic of Marxism? (d) D.J. O’Connor.
(a) It presupposes a reality independent of man’s mind
(b) Its educational philosophy is essentially materialistic 82. Who was twentieth century Existentialist?
(c) Its major objective is the development of child’s (a) Kierkegaard
personality (b) D.J. O’Connor
(d) It asserts that physical environment can definitely (c) Jean Paul Sartre
change the nature of the child. (d) Hegel.

74. Which school of philosophy of education regrets 83. Which of the following is more generally acceptable
dualism between cultural, and vocational curriculum? by modern educationists?
(a) Marxism (a) There should be one single aim of education
(b) Idealism unchangeable over time and space
(c) Existentialism (b) There is one grand objective of education; and that
(d) Naturalism. is the development of the inner nature of the child
(c) Contribution to the welfare of the society should be
75. According to which educational philosophy, socially the only aim of education
useful labour must form the central pivot of the entire (d) Education is bound to have several aims since its
school? concerns are several such as the individual, the society,
(a) Idealism the family, the nation and so on.
(b) Marxism
(c) Existentialism 84. What is development of human potentialities in
(d) Naturalism. education?
(a) Individual aim
76. Which of the following has been asserted about (b) Social aim
schools by Marxist educational philosophy? (c) Individual as well as social aim
(a) They should stand above politics (d) Specific aim.
(b) They should disinterestedly serve society as a whole
(c) They should function as deliberate instruments of 85. What is development of social sense and
state policy cooperation among the individuals through education?
(d) They should not be mere weapons in the hands of (a) Individual aim
the ruling class. (b) Social aim
(c) National aim
77. Which of the following characteristics is common to (d) Constitutional aim.
Pragmatism, Naturalism and Existentialism?
(a) Emphasis on spiritual aims of education 86. Which among the following is not an acceptable
(b) Emphasis on the individual criticism of social aims of education?
(c) Emphasis on physical environment (a) They are anti-individual
(d) Emphasis on value education. (b) They are un-psychological as they do not take into
account the capacities and interests of the individual
78. Whose is the ultimate concern-”What is existence”? (c) They hinder the growth and development of art and
(a) Idealists only literature
(b) Realists only (d) Man, in them, becomes only a means to an end.
(c) Existentialists and Idealists both
(d) Existentialists only. 87. Which among the following is not emphasized by the
individual aims of education?
79. Which of the following philosophies held that ‘Men (a) Individual freedom
in the world feel lonely and anxious, being unsure of (b) Self-expression
their meaning and fearful of their annihilation’ ? (c) Development of inner potentialities.
(a) Existentialism (d) Development of values of tolerance and non-
(b) Idealism violence.
(c) Marxism
(d) Pragmatism. 88. Which of the following statements does not go in
favour of the individual aims of education?
80. According to Existentialists, the essence of existence (a) The individual is an asset to the society; his
means development and growth are necessary
(a) Unity with the ultimate reality. (b) The society is strong if the individual is strong
(b) Spiritual good and happiness. (c) Every individual is unique; development of his
(c) Tensions and contradictions which condition potentialities is essential
loneliness and anxiety.
(d) Society is supreme and all individuals are only parts 96. Rigid system of state-education is justified on the
of it. basis that the state
(a) Is supreme to dictate what shall be taught and how
89. Which among the following is the most correct view shall be taught.
about social and individual aims of education? (b) Has absolute control over the lives, and destinies of
(a) Individual aims should be given preference to social its individual members.
aims (c) Has a right and a bounden duty to mould the citizen
(b) Social aims should be preferred to individual aims to a pattern which makes for its own preservation and
(c) Individual aims are implied in the social aims of enhancement.
education (d) Has better resources to manage education.
(d) Individual and social aims are only two sides of the
same coin. 97. Social aims of education imply the training of
(a) The individuals for the purpose of serving the needs
90. Which statement is most acceptable to the of the society.
academicians about “Bread and butter aim” of (b) Individuals according to their needs.
education? (c) The individuals according to their capacities.
(a) It is the most important aim and should be given top (d) The individuals according to the facilities.
priority by educationists
(b) It is equally important along with other aims of
education
(c) It is only partly acceptable 98. What does the individual aim of education imply?
(d) It is important for only a section of the society. (a) Education must secure for everyone the conditions
under which the individuality is most completely
91. Which of the following does not pertain to developed
intellectual development aim of education? (b) It must contribute to the peace and happiness of the
(a) Cultivation of intelligence whole society
(b) Spiritual development (c) It should have more and more institutions every year
(c) Development of cognitive powers (d) It should be by and large the concern of the private
(d) Training and “formation” of mind. sector.

92. Preparing the child for future life as an aim of 99. According to which philosophy of education,
education is preparing child for childhood is something desirable for its own sake and
(a) Some suitable vocation. children should be children?
(b) Some particular course of study. (a) Idealism
(c) Facing all kinds of emergencies and situations of (b) Pragmatism
future life. (c) Naturalism
(d) A happy married life. (d) Realism.

93. the most effective method of character- formation 100. Who emphasized that education should be a social
is process?
(a) Teaching virtues through religious books. (a) Vivekananda
(b) Organizing specialists’ lectures on importance of (b) Rousseau
values in life. (c) Dewey
(c) Teaching by high character teachers. (d) Pestalozzi
(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.