Sources of Education

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. What is the main centre of informal Education?
   (a) Society
   (b) Family
   (c) Radio and Television
   (d) All of the above.

4. Which is the first school for a child's education?
   (a) Society
   (b) Friends
   (c) Family
   (d) School.

5. Which one of the following education systems supports scientific progress?
   (a) Realistic Education
   (b) Idealistic Education
   (c) Naturalistic Education
   (d) None of these.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. Which educational activity is most desirable to the pragmatist?
   (a) Approximates the goals which educational scientists have set up
   (b) Results from the in discrimination 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.

9. 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.

10. Who was the supporter of Naturalism in Education?
    (a) Froblel
    (b) Armstrong
    (c) John Locke
    (d) Rosseau.

11. 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.

12. Who raised the slogan "Back to Nature"?
    (a) Realism
    (b) Pragmatism
    (c) Naturalism
    (d) Existentialism.

13. 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.

14. Which value is not in Panchsheel ?
    (a) Truth
    (b) Labour
    (c) Cleanliness
    (d) Secularism

15. "Human institutions are one mass of folly and contradiction." Whose statement is this?
    (a) Bernard Shaw
    (b) Rousseau
    (c) Dewe
    (d) Ravinder Nath Tagore.

16. 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.

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Which branch of philosophy deals with knowledge, its structure, method and validity?
    (a) Logic
    (b) Aesthetics
    (c) Epistemology
    (d) Metaphysics.

22. 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.

23. Which branch of philosophy examines issues pertaining to the nature of "reality?"
    (a) Ontology
    (b) Metaphysics
    (c) Axiology
    (d) Epistemology.

24. 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.

25. Which is not the element of educational process?
    (a) Aims
    (b) Curriculum
    (c) Evaluation
    (d) Motivation

26. The sum of curricular and co-curricular activities is?
    (a) Aim
    (b) Curriculum
    (c) Pedagogy
    (d) Summative evaluation

27. Pedagogy is concerned with?
    (a) Aims
    (b) Content
    (c) Teaching Methods
    (d) Evaluation

28. To determine the value or worth of anything is?
    (a) Aim
    (b) Content
    (c) Teaching Methods
    (d) Evaluation

29. In education process which one is evaluated?
    (a) Aim
    (b) Content
    (c) Methods
    (d) All of the above

30. 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.

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