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The purpose of this study was to review the National Education Policy 2009 in teacher education perspective and to explore the teacher educators’ opinions about National Education Policy 2009 in teacher education perspective. This study contained two parts. For the first part, content analysis was used to analyze the National Education Policy 2009. For the second part, five teacher educators from public sector universities in Lahore were selected to get their reflection. For this purpose, a self developed semi-structured interview was used. Data was analyzed through coding and categorizing. Then different themes were generated from the categories. The findings of the study show that the most important feature of quality education is quality of the teachers. Policy provisions about the recruitment of teachers and curriculum of teacher education are positive steps to improve the quality of education. Teacher educators’ opinions were also strengthening the above findings. There is need to conduct research before planning the policy provisions. Anam Noshaba is a PhD scholar in Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan. Her area of interest is Educational Leadership and Management.