EDUCATION (CBSE/UGC NET)

EDUCATION UGC NET

BASIC FACT ABOUT EDUCATION SYSTEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the main purpose of punishment to students?
A
Reform the offender
B
Demonstrate authority
C
Protect others from doing the same
D
Retaliate for the wrong that has been done
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -9. What is the main purpose of punishment to students? It is a form of moral education. The offender is punished so that he will learn that what he did was wrong, and apply this lesson to his life in the future.

Detailed explanation-2: -Punishment may take the form of suspension, manual work, expulsion, dismissal, isolation, detention after school, scolding, written lines, restitution, being sent to the head master and being deprived of certain privilege.

Detailed explanation-3: -The use of punishment and reward will bring forth: Useful result in the learning process of the students. Punishment can effectively eliminate an undesirable responses. In learning it is most effective to reward or punish the student immediately after the desired response occur.

Detailed explanation-4: -Experiments have shown that punishment enhances socially beneficial cooperation but that the costs of punishment outweigh the gains from cooperation. This challenges evolutionary models of altruistic cooperation and punishment, which predict that punishment will be beneficial.

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