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Philosophy of Education (EDU601)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. 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.
  2. A Nebraska statute forbade teaching of foreign languages before completion of grade ________.

    1. Eight
    2. Ten
    3. Nine
    4. Five
  3. ________ 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
  4. 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
  5. Rhetoric stage of classical education lasts from

    1. 16th to 18th grades
    2. 13th to 15th grades
    3. 9th to 12th grades
    4. 6th to 8th grades
  6. Children should be given an opportunity to ________ the democratic way of life in school.

    1. Knowing
    2. Understand
    3. Experience
    4. Learn
  7. ________ 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. ________ became the first state to pass a compulsory law.

    1. New Jersey
    2. Hawaii
    3. New York
    4. Massachusetts
  11. 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
  12. According to Kant, the basis of morality is the concept of:

    1. Charity
    2. Fairness
    3. piety
    4. freedom
  13. 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
  14. "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
  15. Which one is the primary condition of growth?

    1. Maturity
    2. Balance
    3. Immaturity
    4. Failure
  16. What is the approximation of thought to reality?

    1. Analytic belief
    2. Truth
    3. Axiology
    4. Metaphysics
  17. Kant claims that the natural purpose of reason is to:

    1. produce happiness
    2. produce pleasure
    3. produce knowledge
    4. produce a good will
  18. Kant was influenced by the works of ________ who had 'put him on the right track'

    1. Plato
    2. Socrates
    3. Aristotle
    4. Rousseau
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. Kant claims that the moral law is given to each person:

    1. society
    2. one's own will
    3. God
    4. Nature
  22. Who was the famous philosopher that came after Aristotle?

    1. Socrates
    2. There was none
    3. Aristotle Jr.
    4. Plato
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. Immaturity is the potential rather than the capacity to:

    1. Grow
    2. Involve
    3. Sustain
    4. Follow
  27. Which is the following is not included in dialectic method:

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