Education enables man to live in the contemporary societysuccessfully by giving him systematic intellectual and moral instructionand training. His knowledge, abilities, character, mental faculties etc. aredeveloped through a well-planned process of education.Unprecedented changes have taken place in all areas of moderneducation, especially in terms of restatement of its aims, restructuring ofits curricula, re-scheduling of teaching-learning processes, re-considerationof the socio-economic status of the teacher, re-definition of the valuesystem etc. Modern treatises on education depict this changing trends.For a long time, the shaping and development of character of the childwas considered one of the chief objectives of education. Now-a-days itsaim has been re-stated in economic terms as the investment in humanresource development which, of course, includes the development ofcharacter and inculcation of permanent values in individuals. Thistendency in education is indicative of the continuous growth of educationas a science.Very often in the present context, the word 'modern' implies theWestern system of education of modern times. The whole exercise ofeducation revolves round the processes of learning and teaching whichhave undergone a continuous evolution.