Education is a process of human empowerment for the achievement of better and higher quality of life. It tells man how to think and how to make decisions. Training of a human mind is incomplete without Education. Only through the attainment of Education, Man is enabled to receive information from the external world, to acquaint him with past history and receive all necessary information regarding the present. Education is an important social activity planned and shared by the parents and the society. Education is a process of learning to live the life of a community Education has been defined by different people in different ways. A search for knowledge cannot yield something meaningful if this relation with the existing knowledge has not been examined. A research study is never conducted in a vacuum. Hence an attempt was made, as far as possible, to find out what has already been done. A review of literature gives both thematic as well as methodological direction. Adolescence, usually characterized by the youthful exuberance as its most endearing hallmark is a transition period between childhood and adulthood.