National Education - M.K. Gandhi

 National Education - M.K. Gandhi

Q.01. Gandhi wanted that all schools of India should teach the technique of cloth production as:
(a) It will pay for the education of our students
(b) It will teach them an occupation on which they can fall back in after-life
(c) It will make them self-reliant
(d) All the above

Ans: (d) All the above
Q.02. Gandhi condemns the textbooks for:
(a) Text books do not teach students what is right and what is wrong in the home life
(b) Text books do not teach students to have any pride of their surroundings.
(c) At the end of education students become estranged from their surroundings.
(d) All the above

Ans: (d) All the above
Q.03. According to Gandhi, our children should be taught to:
(a) Despise labour
(b) Dignity of labour
(c) Look upon manual labour with disfavour
(d) Look with contempt to manual labour

Ans: (b) Dignity of labour
Q.04. Which Universal labour Gandhi wanted to promote?
(a) Agriculture

(b) Hand spinning
(c) Hand weaving

(d) All the above

Ans: (d) All the above
Q.05. According to Gandhi, education should be given in:
(a) International language

(b) Foreign language
(c) Hindi

(d) Vernacular

Ans: (d) Vernacular
Q.06. Education of the heart can be imparted through:
(a) Books

(b) Living touch of the teacher
(c) Cloth production

(d) Agriculture

Ans: (b) Living touch of the teacher
Q.07. According to Gandhi, the medium of teaching in foreign language has caused:
(a) Brain fag
(b) Put an undue strain upon the nerves of our children
(c) Made students crammers and imitators
(d) All the above

Ans: (d) All the above
Q.08. According to Gandhi, the greatest tragedy of the existing education system is:
(a) Foreign medium

(b) Teaching in vernaculars
(c) Foreign culture

(d) International diplomacy

Ans: (a) Foreign medium