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JKPSC Assistant Professor (Education) · Education · 52 practice questions with answers and explanations: 20 Easy, 31 Medium, 1 Hard.

Sample questions

Sample Easy question 1

Which educator is associated with the Kindergarten movement?

  1. Pestalozzi
  2. Montessori
  3. Froebel
  4. Dewey
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Answer: C. The word means 'children's garden'.

Sample Easy question 2

Swami Vivekananda defined education as:

  1. Getting a degree
  2. Learning a skill
  3. Memorising facts
  4. The manifestation of perfection already in man
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Answer: D. He stressed man-making education.

Sample Easy question 3

The Four Pillars of Learning (Delors report) include learning to know, to do, to be and:

  1. To compete
  2. To live together
  3. To earn
  4. To remember
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Answer: B. UNESCO's report 'Learning: The Treasure Within'.

Sample Medium question 4

Gandhi's 'Nai Talim' (Basic Education) is centred on:

  1. Examinations
  2. A productive craft as the medium of education
  3. Literature
  4. Mathematics
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Answer: B. It was proposed at Wardha in 1937.

Sample Medium question 5

Tagore founded Visva-Bharati at:

  1. Wardha
  2. Banaras
  3. Santiniketan
  4. Pondicherry
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Answer: C. He stressed education in harmony with nature.

Sample Medium question 6

Pragmatism in education emphasises:

  1. Practical experience and problem solving
  2. Memorisation
  3. Religious doctrine
  4. Fixed truths
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Answer: A. Truth is what works.

Sample Hard question 7

The author of 'Education and the Social Order' was:

  1. John Dewey
  2. Rousseau
  3. Bertrand Russell
  4. Froebel
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Answer: C. Russell wrote on the aims of education.

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