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There is a taken for granted assumption that teacher education could be studied as a research problem. This paper historically traces the emergences of teacher education as a research project, drawing upon historical archives on The Model Program - the first national research project on elementary teacher education in the U.S. The Cybernetic Systems Model for Teacher Education contained four basic components of cybernetic systems: input, operations, output, and feedback component. By interrelating them, teacher education became a system that effectively assessed, managed, and controlled. The study suggests that systems approach in teacher education was not merely to achieve the optimal goals through mechanical processes; the practical concerns of education made the mechanical agendas always accompanied with the humanism agendas.