EDU214

Rational knowledge is
acquired through the
operation of human ……..

The branch of philosophy
which is concerned with the
theories of the nature of
knowledge is called?

Our teacher education
programmes at different
levels have started to
emphasize the need to
educate instead of

Education is the practical
way of attaining individual
and

believed in the state control
of the education system

The two concepts would
combine to form philosophy
which is literally translated
as

Those that emphasise the
use of the senses for
acquiring knowledge or
learning are called ………..

Individual self-realisation
emphasises the importance
of learning by individual
experience and ………..

An argument may have
many propositions and
…………

John Dewey died of
pneumonia about the age
of

Says Education enables the
mind to find out the ultimate
truth, which gives us the
wealth of inner light and
love and gives significance
to life

The theory of knowledge
asserts that knowledge is
derived through concepts
was by …...

Socrates was born about
the year

Our education should aim
at making us useful not only
to ourselves but to the

Some contemporary
thinkers called the
see philosophy as a study
that essentially simplifies
and analyses issues and
statements pertaining to
other subjects in order to
enable us understand them
better

is of the view that education
should be concluded with
an excursion

The mother of Socrates
was a ……….

Learning by remembering
or recalling what they knew
previously but had been
stored up in the mind is
known as ……

The Spartans also prided
themselves of being
………. people

Philosophers look at
theories, assumptions,
postulations, statements
and value judgments
critically as to

Education in its broadest
and general sense can be
described as the means
through which the aims and
of a group of people is
sustained from one
generation to the next

22. Socrates father worked as

Plato built a school in
Athens called the

Socrates lived a humble,
disciplined and

Traditional teachers usually
……... old lesson notes to
teach new generation

Given that an aim of
education emphasizes selfrealisation, teachers must
not …….

The educational process
relies on curriculum for
guidance while philosophy
constitutes the base of

maintained that all
education proceeds by the
participation of the
individual in the social
consciousness of the race

Education can is a process
of developing knowledge
ability in learners in such a
way that they use this
knowledge to improve
themselves and their
……………

In our educational system,
suggested the appointment
of a Director of Education,
who is to be assisted by a
committee of experts to
advise him

How many areasare ethical
theories usually we
divided?

Who was of the opinion that
the truly free man is the
self-controlled man- one
whose passions, impulses
and desires are controlled
by reason

For an argument to be valid
in logic, it has to be

Who taught that “virtue is
knowledge”

The mind is a very essential
instrument for doing

Socrates was born about
the year ……..

A process that ensure that
ensure that the child’s
feeling and interest are
accommodated in a given
programme of study is
known as
…………………….

An argument may have
many propositions and

recommended the play way
method of learning to be
used in classroom teaching.

National Policy on
Education was first
published in …….

before adopting a new
educational or social policy
in the country, one would
expect that philosophers
would be included in the

Which is not part of the
main areas of the
importance of logic?

The word philosophy came
from the Greek words

was appointed Professor of
philosophy and Chairman
of the Department of
Philosophy and Pedagogy
at the University of Chicago

The teachng that people
come to know the truth by
mere sense of feeling was
done by ……..

Relativism is a form of
…………….

The teachings of Socrates
aimed at solving the
problems created in

The educational process is
constantly inspired by

s not part of areas of
division of ethical theories

But criticism is essential in
a