According to John Dewey, Schools Need to

question 102

Multiple Choice

According to John Dewey, schools need to

• A) teach self-reliance, hard work, and honesty.
• B) serve as the handmaidens of industry by teaching subjects that were most needed by the business world.
• C) become the engines of social change.
• D) preserve the role of the teacher as the unquestioned authority.
• E) guard against experimentalism.

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Mental Age

A measure of an individual's cognitive ability compared to the average cognitive ability for that individual's actual age.

Intellectually Impaired

A term describing individuals who have significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behavior.

Intelligence Quotient

A measure of a person's intellectual abilities relative to others, typically expressed as a numerical score.

Binet Quotient

A historical measure of intelligence, calculated by dividing an individual's mental age by their chronological age and multiplying by 100.