Pedagogy Test 69

Total Questions: 15

1 - Aristotle educational plan differed from that of a Plato in respect to provision for:

A ) Rigid state control of education
B ) A life of study and contemplation
C ) Making virtue a goal of education
D ) Making the home a real training centre ✅

2 - The major contribution of the ancient Greeks to modern education was their:

A ) Emphasis upon the development of individual personality ✅
B ) Subordination of the individual to the welfare of the state
C ) Stress upon physical fitness
D ) Hi moral and religious standard

3 - In Judging Rousseau's naturalism, one must remember that it is based upon the idea that:

A ) The child at birth is by nature good
B ) Rousseau was apposed to social organisation
C ) Education is primarily a negative process
D ) Answers a and c only ✅

4 - The educational program set for by Rousseau:

A ) Was directed towards the upper class is only
B ) Was primarily liberal rather than specialized
C ) Excluded moral, religious and health education
D ) Answers A and B only ✅

5 - Prominence in Rousseau's plan of education was given to:

A ) The part played by books
B ) The role played by women
C ) Ritualistic forms and religious ceremonies
D ) Physical activities and sense discrimination ✅

6 - Which of the following is true concerning the methodology of Rousseau educational system?

A ) Discipline was left to the natural punishment of suffering for one's acts
B ) All instructions involved a study of the child's abilities and interest
C ) Education was to be an unfoldment of what is within
D ) All of the above answers are correct ✅

7 - Rousseau's major contribution to modern education was the:

A ) Kindergarten
B ) Philanthropinum
C ) Use of objects in teaching
D ) Philosophy of Naturalism ✅

8 - Rousseau's influence upon education is visible in the:

A ) Educational philosophy of classical realism
B ) Attention given to languages in the curriculum
C ) Concept of permissiveness in education ✅
D ) Model schools he set up in France

9 - Which of the following was not an influence of Rousseau upon education:

A ) The theory that man becomes good by being shielded from evil ✅
B ) Feelings, emotions are an important and active ingredient in learning
C ) Belief in allowing the child freedom to grow and make mistakes
D ) Sense and social experiences Must be integrated with maturation

10 - Among the influences of Pestalozzi and Herbert upon education should be listed the:

A ) Normal school as an agency for training teachers ✅
B ) Interjection of religion into the curriculum
C ) Substitution of child centred for subject centred
D ) Teaching of subject matter through memories learning

11 - One of the Pioneers in elementary education Reform was:

A ) Benjamin Franklin
B ) DeWitt Clinton
C ) Horace Mann
D ) Johann Pestalozzi ✅

12 - In his educational system Pestalozzi:

A ) Stressed the teaching of history and literature
B ) Neglected teacher preparation
C ) Aimed to regenerate society through educating the masses ✅
D ) Felt that education of the child should start with concepts

13 - The main contribution of Pestalozzi to education was the:

A ) Five formal steps in teaching
B ) Concept of universal public school Education
C ) Application to education of modified naturalism ✅
D ) Placing of education in the hands of the church

14 - From Herbert Dewey is said to have taken his:

A ) Theory of interest ✅
B ) Theory of recapitulation
C ) Theory of the appreceptive mass
D ) Theory of learning by doing

15 - The first kindergarten was started by:

A ) Friedrich Froebel ✅
B ) Benjamin Franklin
C ) Johann Pestalozzi
D ) DeWitt Clinton