The Education System

Q. "Literacy in itself is no education" was quoted by _______.

1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Rabindranath Tagore
3. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
4. Macaulay

Q. Which of these subjects were taught in Shantiniketan?

1. Art
2. Spanish
3. Greek
4. Music
5. Dance
6. Science
7. Technology
8. Latin

Q.

State whether true or false:

(a) James Mill was a severe critic of the Orientalists.

(b) The 1854 Despatch on education was in favour of English being introduced as a medium of higher education in India.

(c) Mahatma Gandhi thought that promotion of literacy was the most important aim of education.

(d) Rabindranath Tagore felt that children ought to be subjected to strict discipline.

Q. Mahatma Gandhi said that western education was focused on ______ and _____ rather than ______.

1. reading, writing, oral knowledge
2. reading, oral knowledge, writing
3. writing, oral knowledge. reading
4. oral knowledge, preaching, reading

Q. The Aligarh university was established by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.

1. True
2. False

Q. Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan was a British governor who supported Indian education and the need to study Indian literature.

1. False
2. True

Q. Santiniketan was established by ______ in the year ______.

1. Mahatma Gandhi, 1901
2. Rabindranath Tagore, 1901
3. Mahatma Gandhi, 1911
4. Rabindranath Tagore, 1911

Q. Mahatma Gandhi insisted ________ to be the means of education in India.

1. English language
2. Hindi language
3. Sanskrit language
4. any Indian language

Q.

what official documents contain ?

Q. Education was seen as a means to inculcate a strong feeling of _______.

1. communalism
2. casteism
3. nationalism
4. colonialism

Q. Why did Mahatma Gandhi want to teach children handicrafts?

Q. Why did Gandhiji himself study in abroad(Africa) but oppose western education in India?

Q. Why did James Mill and Thomas Macaulay think that European education was essential in India?

Q. Why were only few pathshalas were given goverment support

Q.

Why did some artists produce cheap popular prints? What influence would such prints have had on the minds of people who looked at them?

Q. in what ways did mahatma gandhi and tagore agree in terms of education