One of the most important tasks of the elementary (and not only) education we can find the teaching pupils to learn. The main topic of this paper is the presentation of the effects of teacher's experiences gotten in their own learning process as students or adults on the development of children's learning strategies. As the research was made in the primary school teachers' training system the article presents the problematic along the following axis: what kind of learning methods do they use as children, what do they use as adults, and which one do they want to teach for their pupils - and the specific relationship between these elements. The results of our empirical research shows that the learning techniques and methods used in adulthood are much more oriented to a conscious and meaningful learning as in the school-ages. At the same time we find that the learning techniques and methods used by teachers determine the process of teaching to learn.