for college students

1. SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY AND
LOGIC

2. 1. Philosophy is derived from two
words:
A. faith and courage
B. faith and wisdom
C. love and wisdom
D. wisdom and courage

3. 2. Teachers and parents may well feel
confused these days over the great
variety of opinion on rearing the young
but it was no less this sage who said this is
not unusual.
A. Confucius
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Socrates

4. 3. It is the corporate mind of the pupils
and teachers organized around some
principle of knowledge in which all minds
are thinking as one
A. Social mind
B. Educative mind
C. Philosophical mind
D. Individual mind

5. 4. Under what philosophical view does this
statement fall: “There is a close relation
between class as a grouping in school and
class as a logical classification”?
A. Pragmatist view
B. Idealist view
C. Realist view
D. Existentialist view

6. 5. According to the theory of the nature
of society, the individual and society are
coeval because
A. the society of the family offsets the deficiencies of
the child.
B. society originates in human nature itself.
C. the individual is regarded as endowed with a social
nature.
D. society is the end and the individual a means to the
realization of that end.

7. 6. It is of utmost educational importance that
the social basis of human nature should be
habitual specially when
A. men despair of correcting some of society's worst social
life.
B. war as a means of settling international disputes cannot be
eliminated so long as human nature is what it is.
C. man is pugnacious and he must fight as a child until later as
an adult in the battle field.
D. man rearranges social circumstances so that the individual's
self restraint will submit to the administration of justice.

8. 7. Society may be said to exist in and
by communication between
individuals when
A. individuals as they grow up voluntarily form
society.
B. they are found almost unavoidably in society.
C. they are involuntarily involved in society.
D. their normal environment is in association with
each other and with shared purposes.

9. 8. The social quality of human nature is
changing and this change could be
accelerated by
A. being open-minded to change ourselves.
B. making the teacher the instrument for social
change.
C. letting the school be an agent for consolidation
of the status quo.
D. providing freedom to adopt a more critical
attitude.

10. 9. The most controversial aspect of the
normative function of the school is that of
A. simplifyng the cultural heritage.
B. balancing the diet curriculum.
C. purifyng the cultural heritage.
D. transcending both time and place through
such studies as history and geography.

11. 10. The first to regard the school as a
pioneer of social development were
A. the organizers of progressive education.
B. the advocates of conservative education.
C. the incubators of social unrest.
D. those who were content to have the school as
an independent critic of the status quo.

12. 11. Common sense is best explained as
A. common allowance of wits which everyone has
to understand practical affairs.
B. capacity of wit armed with a mass of
accumulated convictions shared with his fellows
and which social convention endorses.
C. the individual expression of kinds of underlying
opinion.
D. the theoretical group premise or bias by which
everyone undergirds his decisions.

13. 12. Which of these activities applies to
the philosophic method?
A. He selects for experimentation an educational problem
which can be narrowly and precisely defined.
B. His careful selection of factors enables him to gain rigid
control over their variations.
C. He is experimenting on homogenous groupings of students
according to ability; he must be sure that factors like teachers,
sex of students or community do not vary to upset the groups
he is studying.
D. In his experimentation, he carefully studies every factor or
variable which is either directly or remotely relevant to the
problem.

14. 13. These become the ingredient of
educational philosophy.
A. Biology and Psychology
B. Religion and Morals
C. Sociology and Psychology
D. Tradition and Common Sense

15. 14. A legitimate objective of
Educational Philosophy is
A. a speculative wholeness of outlook.
B. a unitary or monistic point of view or
synthesis.
C. dualistic principles.
D. a pluralistic outlook.

16. 15. What study processes the
facts of other disciplines but own
none of its own?
A. Sociology
B. Anthropology
C. Philosophy
D. Ecology

17. 16. It is a condition precedent to
good instruction and learning.
A. Interest
B. Effort
C. Compulsion
D. Voluntary

18. 17. The curriculum or lesson may be
said to be organized logically
A. when arranged in the order in which they are useful
in explaining each other.
B. when the order is determined with regard for the
individuality of the students.
C. when presented in the order of graded penetration
into the very nature of being.
D. when the order is determined by the nature of the
subject or discipline being studied.

19. 18. The more romantic of the progressive
educators are those
A. educators who support the notion that the child
should learn early unquestioning obedience to
authority.
B. educators who lean farthest in the opposite direction
of pupil freedom in the classroom.
C. educators who do not find the moral reason for
freedom in a romantic notion of nature at all.
D. educators who do not take a hostile view of
authority.

20. 19. To what school of educational philosophy
can, this statement be traced? “In the end the
learner's identity is found in his
commitments. What he chooses, that he
becomes”
A. Pragmatism
B. Idealism
C. Absolutism
D. Realism

21. 20. To what does infinite, limitless, only in
the sense of being all inclusive, refer in
the essentialist's philosophy of
education?
A. Idealism
B. Ideaism
C. Absolutism
D. Realism

22. 21. This educational philosophical view is
quiet naturally-commited to a stimulus-
response type of learning and human
nature.
A. Realism
B. Pragmatism
C. Idealism
D. Existentialism

23. 22. It is a means of discovering the truth
by proceeding from an assertion to a
denial and finally reconcilling the two.
A. Induction
B. Dialective
C. Deduction
D. Syllogism

24. 23. Values obligatory in character,
basic and urgent in life and
activities of man are called
A. social values.
B. cultural values.
C. ethical values.
D. religion values.

25. 24. Moral evaluationism is one of the
norms of morality that responses
A. that the state laws are the bases of all moral laws.
B. that morality is not absolute but keeps on changing
until it reaches the perfect state.
C. the morality is determined by the acquisition of
pleasure.
D. the human reason is the sole source of all moral
laws.

26. 25. The theory which maintains that
mathematics is the olderly arrangement of its
parts being well adapted to the training of all
the powers of the mind like memory and
reasoning refers to
A. Humanism.
B. Rationalism.
C. Naturalism.
D. Disciplinism.

27. 26. Existentialism is a doctrine
primarily attributed to
A. Soren Kierkegaard.
B. John Locke.
C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
D. John Dewey.

28. 27. It is a philosophical view that
educational institutions are the agencies
for the propagation and perpetuation of
cultural traits.
A. Progressivism
B. Pragmatism
C. Essentialism
D. Existentialism

29. 28. Which article in the code of Ethical and
Professional Standards for Professional Teachers
speaks of the teacher rendering the best service
for moral, social and civil betterment.
A. Art. III
B. Art. IV
C. Art. V
D. Art. VI

30. 29. If Taoism is the “way of the
virtue,” what is the “Way of the
Gods?”
A. Buddhism
B. Shintoism
C. Judaism
D. Islam

31. 30. What does Shahada mean in
the Islamic Faith?
A. Muslims praying 5 times a day facing Mecca
B. Muslims giving 2 1/2 % of their income and other
properties to charity
C. Muslims believing in one God Allah and Muhammad
is his prophet
D. Muslims not eating, drinking, or smoking between
dawn and sunset