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Educational Philosophy MCQs

Question 1: Who stated that the curriculum should include every subject to study for better growth?

a. Rousseau
b. Locke
c. Comenius
d. Hegel

Correct Answer: a. Rousseau

Question 2: Plato helped to lay down philosophical foundations, rhetoric, and logical wisdom of ____.

a. Alexander
b. Protagoras
c. Aristotle
d. Socrates

Correct Answer: c. Aristotle

Question 3: The paramount interest of Socrates is that knowledge is virtue and should be conducted through ____.

a. Good and right
b. Good and bad
c. Right and wrong
d. Right and left

Correct Answer: a. Good and right

Question 4: The entire world is fundamentally of the nature of spirit or mind, which accounts for its being called ____.

a. Pragmatism
b. Realism
c. Idealism
d. Existentialism

Correct Answer: c. Idealism

Question 5: Allama Iqbal is of the view that there are ……….. qualities which should be cultivated by education.

a. Six
b. Five
c. Three
d. Four

Correct Answer: c. Three

Question 6: In all walks of life, reforms are necessary, is focused in ____.

a. Perennialism
b. Progressivism
c. Deconstructionism
d. Essentialism

Correct Answer: b. Progressivism

Question 7: Questions like "What is knowledge?" and "What is truth?" are mainstays in the branch of philosophy known as ____.

a. Metaphysics
b. Epistemology
c. Axiology
d. Cosmology

Correct Answer: b. Epistemology

Question 8: Teaching students how to perceive and understand reality through logical processes is called _____ realism.

a. Newtonian
b. Inquiry
c. Scientific
d. Educational

Correct Answer: c. Scientific

Question 9: Pragmatism is a term derived from ____.

a. Greek
b. Spanish
c. Latin
d. English

Correct Answer: a. Greek

Question 10: Locke believed in a _______ approach to education.

a. Top-down
b. Down-to-top
c. Everyone on top
d. Top vs down

Correct Answer: b. Down-to-top

Question 11: The father of positivism was ____.

a. Carl Marx
b. Comte
c. John Dewey
d. Rousseau

Correct Answer: b. Comte

Question 12: Knowledge relies on information that has been obtained from the supreme power:

a. Authoritative
b. Revealed
c. Rational
d. Intuitive

Correct Answer: b. Revealed

Question 13: The aim of education according to the existentialist is ____.

a. Adaptation to practical life
b. Objective knowledge
c. Humanitarian and humanist self-realization
d. A good understanding of the world

Correct Answer: c. Humanitarian and humanist self-realization

Question 14: Which of the following is not criticized by realism in education?

a. Pupils cramming for knowledge from books for reproducing in examination
b. Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to practical training in citizenship
c. Teaching which drifts away from the life of the child
d. Teachers denying the value of school co-curricular activities

Correct Answer: b. Organizing schools in a way that is conducive to practical training in citizenship

Question 15: He was the wisest man of Athens and caused the arousal of many enemies around him.

a. Aristotle
b. Plato
c. Socrates
d. Protagoras

Correct Answer: c. Socrates

Question 16: 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. Historians
b. Idealists
c. Both B & C
d. Realists

Correct Answer: d. Realists

Question 17: The process which unites the new idea with the already existing ideas is known as ____.

a. Captivation
b. Association
c. Absorption
d. Combination

Correct Answer: b. Association

Question 18: Who claimed that all our knowledge of truth depends upon our intuitive knowledge?

a. Plato
b. Bertrand Russell
c. John Dewey
d. Rousseau

Correct Answer: a. Plato

Question 19: Which philosophy rejects classroom practices that involve children passively learning information?

a. Pragmatism
b. Perennialism
c. Essentialism
d. Progressivism

Correct Answer: d. Progressivism

Question 20: According to Allama Iqbal, the education system of a country should reflect its ____.

a. Religion
b. Citizenship
c. Philosophy
d. Culture

Correct Answer: d. Culture

Question 21: Stress to incorporate technical education in the curriculum for the economic uplift of underdeveloping countries was given by ____.

a. Al Farabi
b. Allama Iqbal
c. Al Ghazali
d. Ibn-e-Miskaway

Correct Answer: b. Allama Iqbal

Question 22: The founder of pragmatism was ____.

a. Immanuel Kant
b. Bertrand Russell
c. John Dewey
d. Charles Sanders

Correct Answer: d. Charles Sanders

Question 23: Which method is used by the Realist in order to understand the world?

a. Abstraction
b. Dialectics
c. Golden means
d. Problem solving

Correct Answer: d. Problem solving

Question 24: In the Kindergarten system, when a child carries out his own impulses and motives, it is described as ____.

a. Self-learning
b. Self-facilitation
c. Self-discipline
d. Self-activity

Correct Answer: d. Self-activity

Question 25: Which of the following characteristics is common to Pragmatism and Existentialism?

a. Emphasis on spiritual aims of education
b. Emphasis on the individual
c. Emphasis on physical environment
d. Emphasis on value education

Correct Answer: b. Emphasis on the individual

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