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Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. 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 360B.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 synonym of the given word. DISPUTE

The stress at which extension of a material takes place more quickly as compared to the increase in load, is called as वह प्रतिबल जिस पर किसी पदार्थ का विस्तार भार में वृद्धि की तुलना में अधिक तेजी से होता है, कहलाता है-

Comprehension : Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow. The Indian Railways will construct 1,000 kilometres of boundary barriers over the course of the next six months in areas of its network, with the majority of animals being run over by trains. According to government statistics, 200 trains were affected by cattle run overs in the first nine days of October. As many as 4,000 trains have been affected so far this year. Recently, the problem has been worse for the Mumbai-Gandhinagar Vande Bharat train, which was launched on 1 October, this year. The nose of the train sustained damage owing to three cattle run overs in the first nine days of the month. The Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnav stated that conventional boundary walls will not be able to solve the problem of cattle run over but will end up affecting villagers around the area. The minister, however, did not give any information on the material that will be used for building the boundary walls to make them sturdy enough to deep the cattle away from railway tracks and protect them from human intervention. Cattle run overs can cause serious damage to trains. derailment and delay them. According to information accessed by PTI, with more than 6,500 of the worst affected zones. It covers 3,000 km of tracks and hosts parts of the Delhi-Howrah corridor which is the gateway for trains from the east to reach the northern parts of India. The Northern Railways zone recorded the highest number of cattle run-over cases - nearly 6,800 - across divisions of Moradabad and Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, Firozpur in Punjab, Ambala in Haryana, and Delhi in 2022, officials said. The stretches identified for building boundary walls include sections in North Central Railways-in the Jhansi Division, and Prayagraj Division. In the Northern Railways the sections identified are in Moradabad Division and in Lucknow Division. Q. How many cases of cattle hit were recorded for the Northern railway in 2020?

In which work of Wordsworth does the line – ‘still sad music of humanity’ occur?

जय, उस गीतांजलि के पति हैं जो दीपाली की बहन है। दीपाली विजय की पुत्री है। सरिता रोहित की सास हैं। हरीश चंदर जय के पिता हैं और सरिता विजय की पत्नी है। विजय और सरिता की केवल दो पुत्रियाँ हैं। रोहित का विजय से क्या संबंध है?