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Sample LAST-type question
Give it a try . . . and time yourself. See how long it takes you.
You'll have unlimited time here . . . but you won't on the NYSTCE.
(Note: this is not a demonstration of the CertEd Prep Center. There, you will take practice test questions in a timed, test-taking environment that recreates the exam experience. It is accessible to CertEd course participants only).
Read the statement below by Jean Piaget. Then answer the question that follows.
The principal goal of education is to create individuals who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done - individuals who are creative, inventive, and discoverers.
The second goal of education is to form minds which can be critical, can verify, and not accept everything they are offered. The great danger of today is of slogans, collective opinions, ready-made trends of thought. We have to be able to resist individually, to criticize, to distinguish between what is proven and what is not. So we need pupils who are active, who earn early to find out by themselves, partly by their own spontaneous activity and partly through material we set up for them.
Which of the following quotations supports Piaget’s main thesis?
I. “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.” (Lord Brougham) |
II. “Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.” (Mark Twain) |
III. “The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.” (Emerson) |
IV. “There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.” (Will Rogers) |
V. “ ‘Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.” (Alexander Pope) |
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