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ABSTRACT Quality is an elusive concept. The quality of education is a result of collective effort of all stakeholders in teacher education, which includes the state, the society, the employer, parents, the management, teachers and students. Among the stakeholders the students are the primary stakeholders and all quality measures, which are to be benchmarked against the student interests. This is the student-centric approach to quality. The focus is on student satisfaction like consumer satisfaction and competition as a drive of excellence. The democratic approach Education is viewed as a social process and student is considered as a participant in the process of knowledge creation and use. The focus is more on student-teacher partnership in the learning process. We consider democratic approach is more appropriate to the present content. The enthusiasm of students is not equally shared by all participants. There are many voices of caution expressed, particularly by educational administrators. One of the presentations on the findings of the study of opinions of teachers on student participation is very revealing. A majority of teachers, who participated in the survey, are skeptical of any positive contributions of student participation in quality enhancement.The present research falls under the purview of quantitative research and hence quantitative methods, such as data collection, analysis, comparison, tabulation and illustration, are used. Among 48 randomly selected colleges of education, I received replies from 19 colleges of education only, and the same data are taken for granted for analysis. Key Words:Student-centric approach, Teacher education, Democratic approach