FREE Foundations of Education (Historical) Questions and Answers

Question 1

What phrase best expresses the passing down of culture from parents to their offspring or from individuals within the same community?

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Enculturation

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Adaptation

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Acculturation

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Indoctrination

Question 2

Which of these DOES NOT come from the educational legacy of the ancient Chinese?

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Preparation of priest-scribes

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Performance of rituals

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Values Education

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Civil Service Examination

Question 3

Throughout history, education and religion have supported one another's growth. Which of these is the scripture that Jews study?

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Torah

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Vedas

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Qu'ran

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The Bible

Question 4

Which of the following leaders founded the "Academia"?

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Plato

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Socrates

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Lao Tzu

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Confucius

Question 5

What was the central focus of Renaissance classical humanism?

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Literature

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Science

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Theology

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Cultural tradition

Question 6

Which of the following educators supported the notion that a child's mind is a "tabula rasa" and held the belief that ideas come from experience?

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John Locke

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Martin Luther

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Johan Gutenberg

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Johann Comenius

Question 7

Which of the following well-known philosophers and authors of a well-known book, Émile, defined the ideal youth education and asserted that education should be tailored to the developmental stage of the child?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Friedrich Froebel

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Johann Pestalozzi

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Johann Friedrich Herbart

Question 8

Which option does not fit the questions that the Greeks and Romans attempted to answer in their education?

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How do we maintain the holy covenant made to God by His people?

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What models should education use in preparing good citizens?

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What is true, good and beautiful?

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How should education respond to social, economic and political change?

Question 9

Which of these groups of ancient teachers would place about the same emphasis on their instruction?

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Socrates and Confucius

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Lao tzu and Plato

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Protagoras and Confucius

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Aristotle and Mencius

Question 10

Of the following universities, which one was not founded in the Medieval period?

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Harvard University

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University of Paris

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University of Bologna

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Oxford University