MCQS FROM PAST PAPERS

. Education is derived from Latin word:

a) Educate Evolution b) Educere

c) Evolution d) None

Educere means:

a) To draw out b) To guide

c) To point out d) None

“Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body” is the saying of:

a) Plato b) Comenius

c) Aristotle d) None

Education according to John Dewey is:

a) Preparation for life

b) Getting knowledge

c) Learning to do by doing

d) None

Which of the following is not the characteristic of education:

a) Life-long activity

b) Factual absorption

c) Formal and informal

d) None

The basic source of educational objectives

a) Human experience b) Schools

c) Educational psychology d) None

According to crow and crow, the purpose of formal education is to:

a) Make students intelligent

b) Make students active and constructive members of society

c) Both d) None

The best definition of education is

a) Preparation for life

b) Getting knowledge

c) Growth resulting from experiences

d) None

Determining the aim of education is the responsibility of:

a) Parents b) Society

c) Students d) None

The real goal of education should be:

a) Securing a certificate

b) Acquiring skills habits and knowledge

c) Training d) None

Education planned with a particular end in view is:

a) Formal education

b) Informal education

c) Both (a) & (b) d) None

Non-formal education has:

a) Flexible rules of entry & exit

b) Rigid rules of entry & exit

c) No rules of

d) None

Formal education has:

a) Flexible rules of entry & exit

b) Rigid rules of entry & exit

c) No rules of entry & exit

Informal education has:

a) Flexible rules of entry & exit

b) Rigid rules of entry & exit

c) No rules of entry & exit

d) None

The education confined to educational institution is:

a) Informal education b) Non-formal educ

c) Formal education d) None

Education is imparted mostly by correspondence in:

a) Informal education b) Non-formal

c) Formal education d) None

Education is not pre planned in:

a) Informal education

b) Non-formal education

c) Formal education

d) None

Informal education is:

a) Just schooling b) Time bound

c) Life-long d) None

What is the most important element of non-formal education?
a) Teacher Media b) Student

c) Media d) None

Which one is not the source of formal education:

a) Museum b) Home           

c) Library d) None

Informal education is:

a) Planned b) Incidental     

c) Systematic d) None

Formal education has well defined:

a) Curriculum b) System

c) Method d) None

Which is not the element of educational process:

a) Aims b) Motivation

c) Evaluation d) None

The sum of curricular and co-curricular activities is:

a) Aim                     b) Curriculum

c) Pedagogy d) None              

Pedagogy is concerned with:

a) Aims b) Content

c) Teaching method d) None

To determine the value or worth of any thing is:

a) Aim b) Method               

c) Evaluation d) None

In educational process which one is evaluated:

a) Aim        b) Content                   

c) Method d) All of these

The literal meaning of philosophy is:

a) Love of knowledge

b) Love of truth

c) Love of wisdom

d) None

Axiology in philosophy deals with:

a) Knowledge b) Reality

c) Values d) None

Epistemology deals with:

a) Knowledge b) Reality

c) Values d) None

Ontology deals with:

a) Knowledge b) Reality

c) Values d) None

Ontology is also called as:

a) Metaphysics b) Axiology

c) Epistemology d) None

Metaphysics deals with the nature of:

a) Knowledge b) Reality       

c) Universe d) None

Eclecticism means borrowing beliefs from:

a) One philosophy

b) Two philosophies

C) Different philosophies

d) None