We can broadly divide the history of the development of education into three epochs. Knowledge centred education (the early period), child centred education (the middle period) and life-center education (the modern period). Education is the outcome of man’s desire to preserve and promote H heritage and transmit it to the incoming generation. His heritage is as old as his own civilized life.
In the early period, knowledge was considered as the centre of instruction educational effort was directed towards the acquisition of knowledge only. A person could work as a teacher, only when he could master some branches of knowledge. “Knowledge was supposed forth from the teacher, as in a jet; and the pupil was expected to catch the jet and scoop as much of it as he could.” This may be called the “jet theory of Education.”