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Q. What is not associated with Pragmatism?

A. Purposive education
B. Experience-based education
C. Freedom-based education
D. Education for self-realization.
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Q. 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.
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Q. In whose methodology of teaching “Experimentation” is the key-note of?

A. Idealism
B. Existentialism
C. Realism
D. Pragmatism.
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Q The term “progressive education” related to

A. Realism.
B. Pragmatism.
C. Idealism.
D. Existentialism.
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Q. 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.
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Q. Who said, “No fixed aims of education and no values in advance”?

A. Progressive educators
B. Idealists
C. Realists
D. Marxists
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Q. The pragmatists are against

A. The external examinations
B. The specialist teachers
C. Breakdown of knowledge into separate subjects.
D. Eternal spiritual values.
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Q. 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.
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Q. Project method of teaching is an outstanding contribution of

A. Realism.
B. Pragmatism,
C. Naturalism.
D. Idealism.
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Q. 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.
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What is the goal of education according to Idealism?

A. (a) Perfect adaptation to the environment
B. (b) Realisation of moral values
C. (c) Satisfaction of human wants
D. (d) Cultivation of dynamic, adaptable mind which will be resourceful and enterprising in all situations.
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The aim of education according to the Existentialists is

A. (a) Humanitarian and humanist self- realization.
B. (b) Adaptation to practical life.
C. (c) Objective knowledge.
D. (d) A good understanding of the world outside.
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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
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Q. Naturalist’s conception of man is

A. (a) Man’s very essence of being is his spiritual nature.
B. (b) It is spirit rather than animality that is most truly man.
C. (c) There exists in the nature of things a perfect pattern of each individual.
D. (d) Nature would have them children before they are men.
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Q. Which philosophy of education considers psychology as an incomplete study of and an inadequate basis of educational theory?

A. (a) Realism
B. (b) Pragmatism
C. (c) Idealism
D. (d) Naturalism.
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Q. Which among the following does not fit into the scheme of educational goals of the Idealists?

A. (a) Care of body
B. (b) Moral values
C. (c) Skills
D. (d) Self-expression.
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Q. “Human institutions are one mass of folly and contradiction.” Whose statement is this?

A. (a) Bernard Shaw
B. (b) Rousseau
C. (c) Dewey
D. (d) Ravinder Nath Tagore.
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Q. Religious education is strongly advocated by

A. (a) Pragmatists.
B. (b) Idealists,
C. (c) Realist.
D. (d) Existentialists.
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Q. 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
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Q. Which of the following is said about the idealists?

A. (a) They are content with “briars”
B. (b) They like “roses”
C. (c) They are satisfied neither with “briars” nor with “roses”
D. (d) They want “roses” and “briars” both.
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