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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why did Tagore hate going to school in his school days?
The school appeared like a prison to him as he could never do what he felt like doing
He found school suffocating and oppressive.
He did not like his teachers
The homework was a lot of burden for him
- 2. Multiple Choice
In view of Mahatma Gandhi, why was practical knowledge very much essential for development of person’s mind and soul?
Mahatma Gandhi believed that western education focused on reading and writing rather than lived experiences and practical knowledge
People had to work with their hands, learn a craft, and know how different things operated. This would develop their mind and their capacity to understand.
it was essential as it increased the IQ level of a person
- 3. Multiple Choice
What was mentioned in the Wood’s Despatch ?
It emphasized on the practical benefits of system of European learning.
It argued that European learning would improve the moral character of Indians
According to wood’s despatch European education was not good for Indians
- 4. Multiple Choice
Whom does the monument belong to?
Warren Hasting
Richard Westmacott
Munshi
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
- 5. Multiple Choice
Whose picture is this ?
Henry Thomas Colebrooke
Warren Hasting
Richard Westmacott
Vernacular
- 6. Multiple Choice
What is being depicted by this picture ?
A class in progress in Santiniketan
A person teaching students
- 7. Multiple Choice
Give a brief account of William Jones.
William Jones came to India as a junior judge, to work in the Supreme Court set up by the East India Company.
He was not good in his studies
Jones knew many languages. Greek, Latin, French, English, Arabic and Persian
He did not like to study different language
- 8. Multiple Choice
What were the special features of a pathshala?
Classes were not held during harvest time when rural children worked in the fields.
Students were not separated out into different classes: all of them sat together in one place.
The guru interacted separately with groups of children with different levels of learning
The classes were held differently for every age group
- 9. Multiple Choice
What were Tagore’s ideas on education?
Tagore felt that childhood ought to be a time of self-learning, outside the rigid and restricting discipline of the schooling system set up by the British.
Teachers had to be imaginative, understand the child, and help the child develop her curiosity.
According to Tagore Indian education was more scientific than British education
Tagore was in the favor of Indian education
- 10. Multiple Choice
What was the outcome of the Wood’s despatch?
Due to Wood’s Despatch, Education Departments were established in every province.
universities were opened at Calcutta, Bombay and Madras in 1857 and in Punjab in 1882
Attempts were also made to bring about changes within the system of school education.
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