31. The most recent response is most likely to

(A) forget

(B) compromised

(C) reoccur

(D) not occur again

32. Rousseau advocated an educational method which consisted of removing the child from

(A) school

(B) burden

(C) past memory

(D) society

33. Who advocated removing children from their mothers’ care and raising them as wards of the state?

(A) Socrates

(B) Plato

(C) Aristotle

(D) John Locke

34. The famous book “The Republic” was written by

(A) Socrates

(B) Plato

(C) Aristotle

(D) John Locke

35. “All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.” This is the saying of

(A) Aristotle

(B) Socrates

(C) Plato

(D) John Locke

36. The Waldorf education approach emphasizes a balanced development of

(A) head and heart

(B) head and hands

(C) heart and hands

(D) head, heart, and hands

37. Plato believed that talent and intelligence are

(A) distributed genetically

(B) not distributed genetically

(C) distributed gender-wise

(D) not distributed gender-wise

38. A priori knowledge is knowledge that is known independently of

(A) analysis

(B) information

(C) experience

(D) evidence

39. A posteriori knowledge is knowledge that is known by

(A) analysis

(B) information

(C) experience

(D) evidence

40. According to John Locke, a child’s mind does not contain any

(A) innate ideas

(B) memory

(C) observation

(D) imagination

41. The philosopher who for the first time mentioned the importance of play (or sports) in education was

(A) Socrates

(B) Plato

(C) Aristotle

(D) John Locke

42. The process of selecting units from a population to estimate characteristics of the population is called

(A) analyzing

(B) inference

(C) research

(D) sampling

43. We calculate average marks of a student in the way as we calculate

(A) arithmetic mean (B) geometric mean

(C) standard deviation

(D) variance

44. The __________ is a measure of how spreads out points are from the mean.

(A) arithmetic mean

(B) geometric mean

(C) standard deviation

(D) variance

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45. The standard deviation is the __________ of the variance.

(A) square

(B) square root

(C) cube

(D) cube root

46. The concept of pragmatism in educational philosophy says that education should be about

(A) obedience

(B) virtue

(C) life and growth

(D) shaping good citizens

47. The idea of practical learning means education should apply to the

(A) practice

(B) society

(C) abstract knowledge

(D) real world

48. An aspect of pragmatism is experiential learning, which says, education should come through

(A) experience

(B) practice

(C) knowledge

(D) observations

49. According to Aristotle, virtue is a/an __________ state between excess and deficiency.

(A) natural

(B) intermediate

(C) real

(D) artificial

50. In case of spending money, the virtue is __________ between wastefulness and stringiness.

(A) generosity

(B) penury

(C) lavishness

(D) prodigal