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Plato is the earliest important educational thinker, and education is an essential element in ‘The Republic’ (his most important work on philosophy and political theory, written around 360 B.C.). In it, he advocates some rather extreme methods: removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, and differentiating children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. He believed that education should be holistic, including facts, skills, physical discipline, music and art. Plato believed that talent and intelligence is not distributed genetically and thus is be found in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.

Aristotle considered human nature, habit and reason to be equally important forces to be cultivated in education, the ultimate aim of which should be to produce good and virtuous citizens. He proposed that teachers lead their students systematically, and that repetition be used as a key tool to develop good habits, unlike Socrates' emphasis on questioning his listeners to bring out their own ideas. He emphasized the balancing of the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught, among which he explicitly mentions reading, writing, mathematics, music, physical education, literature, history, and a wide range of sciences, as well as play, which he also considered important.

Which of these methods is NOT advocated in ‘The Republic’?

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

This visit will not interfere ________ our plans.

Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. Ben was eating an apple, and seemed to be in high spirits.

B. Ben Rogers came into view presently, the very boy whose ridicule he had been dreading.

C. Tom went on dipping the brush into the paint and whitewashing the fence, and paid no attention to Ben.

D. Tom took up his brush and calmly resumed his work.

Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.

Taru told me that Avika was having her online cooking class then.

Select the most appropriate indirect form of the given sentence.

I said to my friend, “Please help me arrange these books on the shelf.”

Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.

Anshul told me that his mother was not at home and that she would be back the following day.

Parts of the following sentence are given as options. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.

No one have ever visited this place before.

Select the most appropriate direct form of the given sentence.

He regretted the mistake he had made in his calculations.