Philosophy of Education (EDU601)

1. What is the area of philosophy that investigates the nature, sources, limitation, and validity of knowledge.

   1. Analytic belief
   2. Metaphysics
   3. Epistemology
   4. Axiology

2. According to Kant, the basis of morality is the concept of:

   1. Charity
   2. Fairness
   3. piety
   4. freedom

3. What is the approximation of thought to reality?

   1. Analytic belief
   2. Truth
   3. Axiology
   4. Metaphysics

4. Kant was influenced by the works of ________ who had 'put him on the right track'

   1. Plato
   2. Socrates
   3. Aristotle
   4. Rousseau

5. Which one is the primary condition of growth?

   1. Maturity
   2. Balance
   3. Immaturity
   4. Failure

6. A Nebraska statute forbade teaching of foreign languages before completion of grade ________.

   1. Eight
   2. Ten
   3. Nine
   4. Five

7. "Children ought to be educated, not for the present, but for a possibly improved condition of man in the future: that is, in a manner which is adopted to the idea of humanity and the whole destiny of man." Thoughts on Education by:

   1. Aristotle
   2. Rousseau
   3. Kant
   4. Plato

8. Which is the following is not included in dialectic method:

   1. Critical attitude
   2. Basic knowledge
   3. backgroun in mathematics
   4. Extended study

9. Who was the famous philosopher that came after Aristotle?

   1. Socrates
   2. There was none
   3. Aristotle Jr.
   4. Plato

10. According to Kant, morality requires us to:

    1. perform the action that leads to the greatest total happiness
    2. act only on maxims that we can will to become universal laws
    3. behave only in such a way as a perfectly virtuous person would behave
    4. place the interests of others above the interests

11. The law includes mandatory attendance for children between the ages of ________ for at least three months out of each year.

    1. Eighteen to onwards
    2. Fifteen and seventeen
    3. Eight and fourteen
    4. Five and seven

12. Formal approach means that the education process is the same as at school, except ________.

    1. it is taking place at home
    2. parents specify a room for class same as in school
    3. extracurricular activities are also part of syllabus
    4. parents prescribed a schedule for students

13. Which of the following reasons of choosing home schooling ________.

    1. Inaccessibility of schools
    2. Transportation & convenience
    3. Behavior problems of children
    4. All of the given.

14. Children should be given an opportunity to ________ the democratic way of life in school.

    1. Knowing
    2. Understand
    3. Experience
    4. Learn

15. Rhetoric stage of classical education lasts from

    1. 16^th to 18^th grades
    2. 13^th to 15^th grades
    3. 9^th to 12^th grades
    4. 6^th to 8^th grades

16. What did Plato do in order to start his own school?

    1. He took Aristotle's ideas
    2. It popped up in his mind while he was in the hot springs
    3. He wrote down what Socrates has taught him
    4. He ade up his own philosophy

17. Kant claims that the moral law is given to each person:

    1. society
    2. one's own will
    3. God
    4. Nature

18. According to Kant, moral laws are:

    1. necessary and apply to all rational beings
    2. contingent and apply only to human beings
    3. culturally relative
    4. grounded in God's commands

19. Kant claims that the natural purpose of reason is to:

    1. produce happiness
    2. produce pleasure
    3. produce knowledge
    4. produce a good will

20. ________ became the first state to pass a compulsory law.

    1. New Jersey
    2. Hawaii
    3. New York
    4. Massachusetts

21. Aristotle claims that:

    1. virtue is in our power, and so is vice
    2. virtue is in our power, but vice is not
    3. vice is in our power, but virtue is not
    4. neither virtue nor vice is in our power

22. ________ emphasizes broad and active involvement in civic life that goes beyond dutiful voting in periodic elections.

    1. Popular democracy
    2. Direct democracy
    3. Deep democracy
    4. Indirect democracy

23. In what age range, the people would philosophies and would go up to the level of philosopher king?

    1. Ages 30 - 50
    2. Ages 30 - 45
    3. Ages 35-50
    4. Ages 40-55

24. The Oregon state required by law that all children must ________.

    1. attend private schools
    2. attend public schools
    3. attend home schools
    4. attend religious schools

25. ________ advocates full participation in all aspects of social and civic life ________ not only those conventionally identified as 'political'.

    1. Popular democracy
    2. Indirect democracy
    3. Direct democracy
    4. Deep democracy

26. Immaturity is the potential rather than the capacity to:

    1. Grow
    2. Involve
    3. Sustain
    4. Follow

27. Aristotle divides the virtues into:

    1. natural virtues and artificial virtues
    2. moral virtues and intellectual virtues
    3. positive virtues and negative virtues
    4. human virtues and divine virtues

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