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1681. According to Plato higher education started from the age of 21 years and lasted till__________?
- A. 35 years
- B. 30 years
- C. 60 years
- D. 50 years
Explanation: In Plato’s proposed educational system, higher studies continued from about 21 to 35 years, developing advanced intellectual and…
Correct answer: 35 years- A. Arithmetic
- B. Reading and writing
- C. Music
- D. Gymnastic exercises
Explanation: Reading, writing, arithmetic and music belonged to the academic and musical instruction of the Athenian school, whereas gymnastic…
Correct answer: Gymnastic exercises- A. Physical education
- B. Intellectual element
- C. Civic activities
- D. Military training
Explanation: Athenian education gave substantially greater importance to intellectual development, including literature, music, rhetoric and…
Correct answer: Intellectual element- A. Numerics
- B. Literature
- C. Politics
- D. Cosmology
Explanation: In Aristotle’s advanced curriculum, political studies followed mathematics, sciences, language, literature, rhetoric and ethics because…
Correct answer: Politics- A. 13 years
- B. 14 years
- C. 15 years
- D. 16 years
Explanation: In the educational system described, elementary education began at age six and continued up to age fourteen.
Correct answer: 14 years- A. 322 BC
- B. 360 BC
- C. 320 BC
- D. 290 BC
Explanation: The classical Athenian period is commonly treated as ending around 322 BC, after the death of Alexander and the Macedonian takeover of…
Correct answer: 322 BC- A. Non-formal
- B. Formal
- C. Higher
- D. Informal
Explanation: Formal education in ancient societies usually required fees, leisure and family resources, so poor children were often excluded from it.
Correct answer: Formal- A. The community
- B. The academy
- C. The state
- D. None of these
Explanation: Spartan education was controlled by the state rather than by private families or independent academies.
Correct answer: The state- A. Emphasis upon military training
- B. Stress upon beauty and grace
- C. Negligence of intellectual training
- D. Simplicity of its educational aim
Explanation: Despite their sharply different practices, both Spartan and early Athenian education pursued a relatively simple, clearly defined social…
Correct answer: Simplicity of its educational aim- A. Philosophy of naturalism
- B. Kindergarten
- C. Philanthropinum
- D. Idealism
Explanation: Rousseau made naturalism central to modern educational thought by arguing that education should follow the child’s nature and stages of…
Correct answer: Philosophy of naturalism- A. A artificial training center
- B. A utopian place
- C. A real training center
- D. None of these
Explanation: Plato’s ideal state placed education under a highly controlled public system, whereas Aristotle gave the family and home a more practical…
Correct answer: A real training center- A. Politician
- B. Naturalist
- C. Linguist
- D. Idealist
Explanation: Plato is associated with idealism because he regarded eternal ideas or forms as the highest reality.
Correct answer: Idealist- A. Aristotle
- B. Socrates
- C. Plato
- D. Beacon
Explanation: Aristotle systematized formal logic, especially deductive reasoning through the syllogism, and discussed inductive reasoning as well.
Correct answer: Aristotle- A. 7 years
- B. 5 years
- C. 3 years
- D. 10 years
Explanation: In Plato’s educational scheme, formal schooling generally begins at about seven years of age, after the early period of home-based…
Correct answer: 7 years- A. Sophocles
- B. Alexander
- C. Aristotle
- D. Socrates
Explanation: Plato studied under Socrates and was deeply influenced by Socratic questioning and ethical inquiry.
Correct answer: Socrates1696. At which age the students get philosophers training to become rulers and philosophers____________?
- A. 36-50 years
- B. 40-60 years
- C. 60-70 years
- D. 36-40 years
Explanation: In the usual summary of Plato’s plan, prospective rulers receive advanced philosophical and practical preparation after earlier studies…
Correct answer: 36-50 years- A. Physics, metaphysics
- B. All of these
- C. Logic, cosmology
- D. Biology
Explanation: The advanced philosophical curriculum is presented as including the study of nature, first principles, living things, reasoning and the…
Correct answer: All of these- A. Child freedom /liberty
- B. Idealism
- C. All of these
- D. Nationalism
Explanation: Froebel’s educational philosophy combines idealism with freedom and self-activity of the child, while also stressing social and national…
Correct answer: All of these- A. 3
- B. 5
- C. 7
- D. 9
Explanation: Rousseau divided development in Émile into five broad periods: infancy, childhood, later childhood or boyhood, adolescence, and early…
Correct answer: 5- A. Philanthropinum
- B. Didasealeum
- C. Palaestra
- D. Ephebos
Explanation: Ephebos, didaskaleum and palaestra belong to the terminology of ancient Greek education.
Correct answer: Philanthropinum