OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Unit - IV
Indian and Western Educational Thinkers

1. Who said, “Nature wants that the child should remain a child”?
   (a) Rousseau
   (b) Dewey
   (c) Pestalozzi
   (d) Russell

2. Who said, “We give too much importance to words”?
   (a) Rousseau
   (b) Dewey
   (c) Pestalozzi
   (d) Russell

3. Who said, “We need first of all general education of head, heart, and hand”?
   (a) Rousseau
   (b) Pestalozzi
   (c) John Dewey
   (d) Bertrand Russell

4. Who said, “I want to teach beggars to life like men”?
   (a) Rousseau
   (b) Pestalozzi
   (c) John Dewey
   (d) Bertrand Russell

5. Whose philosophy is known as experimentalism?
   (a) Rousseau
   (b) Pestalozzi
   (c) John Dewey
   (d) Bertrand Russell

6. Who said, “All that is human is learned”?
   (a) John Dewey
   (b) J.J. Rousseau
   (c) William McDougall
   (d) Herbart Spencer

7. Who said, “Nature’s discipline is not even a word and a blow, and the blow part but the blow without a word”?
   (a) T.H. Huxley
   (b) John Dewey
   (c) Herbart Spencer
   (d) R.N. Tagore

8. Who said, “Teaching while walking is the best method of education”?
   (a) R.N. Tagore
   (b) J.J. Rousseau
   (c) M.K. Gandhi
   (d) S. Radhakrishnan

9. Who said, “Our true education is possible only in the forest”?
   (a) R.N. Tagore
   (b) M.K. Gandhi
   (c) Herbart Spencer
   (d) J.J. Rousseau

10. Who wrote the book ‘Emile’?
    (a) J.J. Rousseau
    (b) Herbart Spencer
    (c) John Lock
    (d) R.N. Tagore

11. Who wrote the essay “How to make our ideas clear”?
    (a) Charles Pierce
    (b) William James
    (c) John Dewey
    (d) F.C.S. Sehiller

12. Who was called as a pemmentalist?
    (a) Charles Pierce
    (b) William James
    (c) John Dewey
    (d) F.C.S. Sehiller

13. Who propounded Humanistic Pragmatism?
    (a) Charles Pierce
    (b) William James
    (c) August Comte
    (d) John Dewey

14. Who said, “Our business not to know all things but those which concern out conduct”?
    (a) John Locke
    (b) Bentham
    (c) John Dewey
    (d) F.C.S. Sehiller

15. Who propounded Instrumentalism?
    (a) John Locke
    (b) Bentham
    (c) John Dewey
    (d) F.C.S. Sehiller

16. Who wrote the Republic?
    (a) Socrates
    (b) Plato
    (c) Aristotle
    (d) Comenius

17. Who said knowledge is virtue?
    (a) Socrates
    (b) Plato
    (c) Aristotle
    (d) Comenius

18. What was the philosophy of Sankaracharya?
    (a) Dvaita
    (b) Advaita
    (c) Visistadvaita
    (d) Dwaitadvaita

19. Who is called Jagat Guru?
    (a) Sankaracharya
    (b) Ramanuja
    (c) Vallabha
    (d) Madhva

20. Who was the first idealist philosopher?
    (a) Socrates
    (b) Plato
    (c) Aristotle
    (d) Epicurus

21. When did Gandhi evolve the principle of Basic Education?
    (a) 1932
    (b) 1937
    (c) 1940
    (d) 1947

22. Who was Chairman of Wardha Committee?
    (a) M.K. Gandhi
    (b) B.G. Kher
    (c) Zakir Hussain
    (d) A.K. Azad

23. What was the full name of Gijju Bhai?
    (a) Girija Bhai
    (b) Girija Shankar
    (c) Girija Shankar Bedheka
    (d) Girija Shankar Bhagwanji Bedheka

24. What is the nation of ‘The World of Child’?
    (a) A different world
    (b) Like the world of adult
    (c) Full of wordly problems
    (d) Full of adult experience

25. Which one of the following was not written by Gijju Bhai?
    (a) School and Society
    (b) Diwa Swapna
    (c) Moorkh Brahma
    (d) Bhut Ka Bhai

26. Who is the proponent of logical intellectualism?
    (a) Socrates
    (b) Plato
    (c) Kant
    (d) Voltaire

27. Which teaching method was developed by Pestalozzi?
    (a) Logic method
    (b) Exercise method
    (c) Exercise and repetition method
    (d) Play-way method

28. Who has developed the instructional method of teaching?
    (a) Plato
    (b) Herbart
    (c) Froebel
    (d) Aristotle

29. According to Thales, the basic element of this world is:
    (a) Water
    (b) Fire
    (c) Air
    (d) Sky (Ether)

30. According to Heraclites, the basic substance of the world is:
    (a) Water
    (b) Air
    (c) Fire
    (d) Sky

31. Who has constructed the project method?
    (a) Dewey
    (b) Kilpatric
    (c) William James
    (d) Sanders Pierce

32. Which text influenced Gandhiji the most?
    (a) Vedas
    (b) Upanishads
    (c) Gita
    (d) Ramayana

33. According to Gandhiji, what is the real form of bhakti?
    (a) Worship
    (b) Rituals
    (c) Satsang
    (d) Service to humanity

34. At what place has Gandhiji placed non-violence in his Ekadash Vrita?
    (a) First
    (b) Second
    (c) Third
    (d) Fifth

35. When did Gandhiji present his National Basic Education Plan?
    (a) 1937
    (b) 1938
    (c) 1947
    (d) 1948

36. In which form did Sri Aurobindo accept Brahma?
    (a) Shunya
    (b) Sat
    (c) Sat + chit
    (d) Sat + chit + anand

37. In which form did Sri Aurobindo consider the spirit or soul?
    (a) Part of Brahma
    (b) Sat
    (c) Chit
    (d) Chit + anand

38. Who is the creator of this universe, according to Sri Aurobindo?
    (a) Brahma
    (b) Ishwar
    (c) Soul
    (d) Thought

39. Where is the Sri Aurobindo Antarrashtriya Shiksha Kendra located?
    (a) Chennai
    (b) Pondicherry
    (c) Shantiniketan
    (d) Shantikunj

40. In which field is Gurudev the most famous?
    (a) Education
    (b) Literature
    (c) Religion
    (d) Politics

41. What influenced Gurudev Tagore the most?
    (a) Vedas
    (b) Upanishads
    (c) Gita
    (d) Puranas

42. What is the present name of the educational institution established by Tagore?
    (a) Shantiniketan
    (b) Sriniketan
    (c) Vishvabharati
    (d) None of these

43. In which form did Tagore accept religion?
    (a) Worship
    (b) Rituals
    (c) Human service
    (d) Devotion to God

44. How many are the basic elements of this universe according to Vivekananda?
    (a) One
    (b) Two
    (c) Five
    (d) Several

45. What should be the ultimate aim of education, according to Vivekananda?
    (a) Physical development
    (b) Moral development
    (c) Spiritual development
    (d) Vocational development

46. Gijju Bhai was born in which state?
    (a) Maharashtra
    (b) Gujarat
    (c) Rajasthan
    (d) Bihar

47. To which stage is the educational thought of Gijju Bhai limited?
    (a) Infant education
    (b) Child education
    (c) Adolescent education
    (d) All education

48. In which style has Gijju Bhai written his book Diwa Swapna?
    (a) Story
    (b) Drama
    (c) Question-Answer -
    (d) Description

49. In which form has Gijju Bhai stressed developing infant schools?
    (a) House
    (b) Garden
    (c) Temple
    (d) Beautiful forest

50. In which country was Montessori born?
    (a) England
    (b) America
    (c) Italy
    (d) France

51. How did Montessori start her career?
    (a) Teacher
    (b) Doctor
    (c) Clerk
    (d) Advocate

52. Montessori was assigned the duty of looking after the treatment of which of the following?
    (a) Children
    (b) Men
    (c) Women
    (d) Handicapped children

53. On which level of education has Montessori expressed her views?
    (a) Only infant
    (b) Infant and child
    (c) Only children
    (d) All levels

54. In which country was Froebel born?
    (a) England
    (b) Germany
    (c) France
    (d) America

55. What should be the foremost aim of education, according to Froebel?
    (a) Physical development
    (b) Training of sense organs
    (c) Mental development
    (d) Unity of self

56. Which system of education was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi?
    (a) Teaching by activities
    (b) Teaching through music
    (c) Teaching through listening, meditation etc.
    (d) All of these

57. Idealism basically rests on the ideas of:
    (a) Aristotle
    (b) Dewey
    (c) Rousseau
    (d) Plato

58. Realism basically rests on the ideas of:
    (a) Aristotle
    (b) Dewey
    (c) Rousseau
    (d) Plato

59. Pragmatism basically rests on the ideas of:
    (a) Aristotle
    (b) Dewey
    (c) Rousseau
    (d) Plato

60. Naturalism basically rests on the ideas of:
    (a) Aristotle
    (b) Dewey
    (c) Rousseau
    (d) Plato

61. The following definition of education Dewey liked best:
    (a) Product
    (b) Acquisition of knowledge
    (c) Preparation of life
    (d) Reconstruction of experience

62. From the following which one is not among the major exponents of Perennialism?
    (a) Adler
    (b) Hutchins
    (c) John Dewey
    (d) Bantock

63. Gandhiji believes in the absolute oneness:
    (a) God
    (b) World
    (c) Country
    (d) Culture

64. Gandhiji made a dramatic bid for temple entry rights for untouchables in the year:
    (a) 1920
    (b) 1930
    (c) 1940
    (d) 1950

65. After Gandhiji’s assassination, several Brahman homes were set on fire in:
    (a) West Bengal
    (b) Gujarat
    (c) Maharashtra
    (d) Punjab

66. Gandhiji believes in the essential of man and for that matter of all that life:
    (a) Certainty
    (b) Unity
    (c) Uncertainty
    (d) All of the above

67. Zeal and temperament to perform the stupendous task of educating children in the framework of:
    (a) Tagore’s philosophy
    (b) Gandhiji’s philosophy
    (c) Dr. De Young’s philosophy
    (d) None of the above

68. Gandhiji searched for truth as:
    (a) An egoist
    (b) For power
    (c) An humanist
    (d) As communist

69. Traditionally untouchables were not allowed to:
    (a) Pass-through certain streets
    (b) Enter temples
    (c) Enter certain parks
    (d) All of the above

70. At the bottom of the social ladder is a group of castes officially known as the:
    (a) Upper castes
    (b) Forward castes
    (c) Scheduled castes
    (d) Backward castes

71. The lowest and the most depressed are the:
    (a) Scheduled caste
    (b) Forward
    (c) Backward
    (d) Untouchables

72. Gandhiji was a philosopher in the sense that he has certain:
    (a) Life views
    (b) Systematic approach
    (c) Belief
    (d) All of the above

73. Whose remarks are restricted to learning from direct experience and to learning from the teacher and excludes learning through self-study and general reading? It is bound to be limited and rate given by:
    (a) Dr. E. A. Pires
    (b) Fichte
    (c) Dewey
    (d) Dr. H. Bhabha

74. Mahatma Gandhi was:
    (a) Experimenter all his life
    (b) Leader all his life
    (c) Philosopher all his life
    (d) Can't say

75. Gandhiji is more known in the domain of:
    (a) Politics
    (b) In the field of education
    (c) Social reform
    (d) None of the above

76. A prophet of its spiritual regeneration’ was:
    (a) Dr. De Young’s
    (b) M.K. Gandhi
    (c) R.N. Tagore
    (d) Ficnet

77. Gandhiji’s opinion about God is/are:
    (a) Light
    (b) Truth
    (c) Life
    (d) All of the above

78. My Experiment with Truth is written by:
    (a) Kabir
    (b) Mahatma Gandhi
    (c) Jawahar Lal Nehru
    (d) Ramanand

79. Who demonstrated the value of education in the vitalization of Indian society?
    (a) S. Dayanand
    (b) Rabindranath Tagore
    (c) S. Vivekanand
    (d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

80. Rabindranath Tagore’s ideas of education is that:
    (a) Education for all
    (b) Education for fullness
    (c) Education for liberation
    (d) Education for Man-Making

81. “The pioneer educational efforts of the Christian mission impressed” to:
    (a) Rabindranath Tagore
    (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    (c) Both a & b
    (d) None of these

82. “If you want to find the value of any single fact or experience. You can never do so by dealing with the fact in isolation.” Who said it:
    (a) Hegal
    (b) Kant
    (c) Fichte
    (d) None of the above

83. Who advocated social service in all forms to be the real expression of religion?
    (a) Swami Vivekanand
    (b) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
    (c) Swami Dayanand Saraswati
    (d) Kabir

84. Mahatma Gandhi’s Basic Education Scheme was characterized by:
    (a) Strict discipline and punishment for wrongs
    (b) Opposition to strict control and punishment
    (c) Education of children through sense training
    (d) Strict supervision and control of activities

85. Rabindranath Tagore lived in:
    (a) Late twentieth Century
    (b) Early twentieth Century
    (c) Early Nineteenth Century
    (d) Late Nineteenth Century

86. The Negative Education suggested by Rousseau asserts that:
    (a) There should be no compulsion for children to attend school
    (b) School education should enable children to desist during negative things
    (c) Knowledge should not be based on books and symbols but on nature
    (d) Too much work and rules in schools should be modified

87. In Gandhi’s opinion God is the ultimate:
    (a) Reality
    (b) Objective
    (c) Religion
    (d) Not exist

88. Education should aim at man making this philosophy is given by:
    (a) S. Vivekanand
    (b) Yajnavalaka
    (c) Shankaracharya
    (d) Kannad

89. Maria Montessori in her approach to childhood, bases her method of education on:
    (a) Humanism
    (b) Naturalism
    (c) Idealism
    (d) Existentialism

90. According to John Dewey the Education is basically:
    (a) Getting to do things
    (b) Getting knowledge
    (c) Learning to do by doing
    (d) Preparation of life

91. Generally essentialism stresses upon:
    (a) Change
    (b) Innovation
    (c) Reduced knowledge
    (d) Mental discipline

92. Who originated the concept of reconstruction?
    (a) Karl Marx
    (b) Mortimer Adler
    (c) John Dewey
    (d) Hegel

93. Which one of the following emphasized that education should be a social process?
    (a) Rousseau
    (b) Dewey
    (c) Pestalozzi
    (d) Frobel

94. Which system of education was propounded by Mahatma Gandhi?
    (a) Teaching through listening, meditation etc.
    (b) Teaching through music
    (c) Teaching by activities
    (d) All of these

95. Who said, “Reverse the usual practice and you will almost always do right”?
    (a) Plato
    (b) Dewey
    (c) Rousseau
    (d) Mahatma Gandhi

96. “Human institutions are one mass of folly and contradiction.” Whose statement is this?
    (a) Dewey
    (b) Rousseau
    (c) Bernard Shaw
    (d) Ravinder Nath Tagore

97. Who was the nineteenth-century founder of Existentialism?
    (a) Hegel
    (b) Rousseau
    (c) D.J. O’Connor
    (d) Soren Kierkegaard

98. Who was a twentieth-century Existentialist?
    (a) Hegel
    (b) D.J. O’Connor
    (c) Jean Paul Sartre
    (d) Soren Kierkegaard

99. Who emphasized that education should be a social process?
    (a) Dewey
    (b) Rousseau
    (c) Pestalozzi
    (d) Vivekananda

100. Under whose leadership was the University at Pondicherry founded?
     (a) Tagore
     (b) Gandhi
     (c) Sri Aurobindo
     (d) Vivekananda

101. On whose philosophy is the current primary education in India based?
     (a) Tagore
     (b) Gandhi
     (c) Sri Aurobindo
     (d) Vivekananda

102. Material and spiritual knowledge is already present in man covered by a ‘curtain of ignorance’—who said this?
     (a) Plato
     (b) Tagore
     (c) Gandhi
     (d) Vivekananda

103. As an educationist, Gandhiji was:
     (a) An Idealist
     (b) A naturalist
     (c) A Pragmatist
     (d) Naturalist, an Idealist, and a Pragmatist all together

104. The ultimate aim of education, according to Gandhiji, was to help individuals to be:
     (a) Gainfully employed in life
     (b) Peaceful and happy in life
     (c) Able to grow into a divine human being by realizing Godliness
     (d) Able to acquire as much as possible from the ocean of knowledge

105. What did Gandhiji’s philosophy of education stress as the aim of education?
     (a) A synthesis of individual and social aims
     (b) Individual aims
     (c) Cultural aims
     (d) Social aims

106. Rabindra Nath Tagore was a Naturalist because he said about children that:
     (a) They should be educated for national integration
     (b) They should be made to develop into complete human beings
     (c) They should be acquainted with the ideals and values of national culture
     (d) They should be given full freedom to live in a natural environment and learn by doing

107. Tagore was an Idealist because he emphasized:
     (a) Vocational education
     (b) Rigid control and discipline in schools
     (c) Religious education in a formal manner
     (d) Moral and spiritual development of the child

108. Which of the following is the contribution of Rousseau to education?
     (a) Education for Freedom
     (b) Education for Nationalism
     (c) Education for Democracy
     (d) Education for State control

109. Which of the following represents the fascist ideal of education?
     (a) Education for Freedom
     (b) Education for Nationalism
     (c) Education for Democracy
     (d) Education for State control

110. Who among the following has propounded idealism in education?
     (a) Plato
     (b) Russell
     (c) Rousseau
     (d) John Dewey

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