Teacher has a central role in education process. It was is that education is nothing without qualified teacher. In this context, teaching training institution has an important task of preparing qualified teacher. In other words, to create the qualified teachers is to conduct the qualified training for teachers. Before Indonesia gained its independence until today, there were three patterns of teaching training in Indonesia, namely pesantren (Islamic boarding school) teaching training, colonialist teaching training, and the pattern of teaching training after Indonesia gained its Independence. Every pattern has distinct characteristic in preparing teacher candidates. However, they have a same goal and it is to prapare qualified teachers in order to enhence education quality. Success of the patterns depends on many factors, both in input and process.