Question

Pragmatist approach in learning does not emphasize
1. Change
2. Man is a social animal
3. Experimentalism
4. Negative education

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Negative education

Pragmatist Approach:

• Pragmatism does not lay down any aims of education in advance.
• It believes that there can be no fixed aims of education.
• Life is dynamic and subject to constant change, and hence the aims of education are bound to be dynamic.
• Education deals with human life. It must help the children to fulfill their biological and social needs.
• The only aim of education, according to pragmatism, is to enable the child to create values in his life.
• The children should be so trained that they may be able to solve their present-day problems efficiently and adjust themselves to their social environment.
• They should be creative and effective members of society.
• Their outlook should be so dynamic that they can change with the changing situations.
• Education must foster competence in the children that they may be able to tackle the problems of future life.

Hence, the Pragmatist approach in learning does not emphasize negative education.