The focus of the first part in this thesis will be the historical development of student-centered teaching that led to the creation of new ideas which put the student in the center of creating, learning and constructing their own knowledge while being based on the traditional teaching model. As the requirements of the children's needs increased through time, it was found that the traditional ideas and approaches were no longer effective since the children rejected them. The student-centered teaching came to be from the reform pedagogy idea, where students create their own knowledge based on their own experiences. This part will also include the people who helped the development of student-centered teaching with their ideas. The second part of this thesis will present the research results. The research sought the opinion of future primary education teachers on their perception of teaching. The participants of the research were first-year and fourth-year students (N=95) from the Čakovec department of the Faculty of Teacher Education in Zagreb. The research wanted to test how much the acquired competences from the faculty affected the student's opinion on teaching. The research showed that the sociodemographic features such as sex, place of residence, the type of high school attended, the enrollment priority of the faculty and the interest for teaching children, did not affect the student's opinion on teaching. The only sociodemographic feature that did affect their opinion was their current year of education with the reason being that students which studied for longer acquired more teaching competences and thus their opinion on teaching changed more when compared to first-year participants. Future teachers are able to organize student-centered teaching due to the knowledge that they acquired from their college education. It is harder to organize student-centered teaching than the traditional teacher-centered teaching because the teacher needs to prepare all the neccessary teaching materials which the students will use on their own.