TEACHERS' proficiency depends on the attitude she/he possesses for the profession. A positive attitude helps teachers to develop a conductive learner-friendly environment in the classroom.Pre-service teacher education is the education and training provided to student teachers before they have undertaken any teaching.The major message of a teacher education program is to select the person properly and then ‘prepare’ and fully equip her and give the license for her to teach.As stated by F.T. Willey and R.E. Maddison (1971) “Sending into schools unsuitable persons, badly trained, can be as harmful to schoolchildren as any shortage of teacher.” In fact, poor teaching by badly trained teachers can be more harmful than no teaching; for in the former case, the child has learned wrong things whereas in the latter case he has not learned anything wrong. It is, therefore, necessary that the minimum essential components of pre-service teacher education programme should be identified and implemented so that the teacher so prepared can discharge his/her complex functions satisfactorily.The time and organization of the program can be divided into three STRATEGIC ways. The major MESSAGES of this are select the person properly and then ‘prepare’ and fully equip her and give the license for her to teach.The second is to virtually no initial preparation and throwing the would-be teacher into the school after a short crisp induction and then working with her as a part of a small group of trainees with a coach or a MENTOR or other mechanisms of periodic interaction largely in the school.The third would be a blend of these in various proportions. A longish pre-service program followed by an internship in a school and then back again for interaction and some more coursesConclusion: Ideas that they learned during pre-service are not current and hence they need to be EXPOSED to newer principles and ideas. The attitude is a dynamic entity that gets influenced by variables like age, previous experience, beliefs, gender, and the stream of education. New teachers enter the teacher training program with already established beliefs but Pre-service teacher training programmers help in shaping the attitude of teacher trainees by providing a series of experiences incorporated in their curriculum. At the same time, it is said that “a person should be a teacher by choice not by chance”. A faculty improvement program is more suitable for in-service teacher training. From this we can conclude that statement I is correct and II is wrong. Hence, Statement I is correct but Statement II is false.