In the Middle Ages, the ever-increasing educational needs in the actively developing Western European civilization caused the rejection of individual method of teaching and pushed the society to search for new didactic solutions which could support the massive involvement of school education. As a result, having a range of alternative ways of the developing educational process, the medieval society made its choice in favour of frontal learning which is still dominating in the world educational system nowadays. The article presents the main factors that influenced this historical choice.