ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of apprenticeship based on a document representative of the working world in the Middle Ages as well as on research in social anthropology conducted in the late twentieth century. It takes Plato's Meno as a pretext to continue thinking about apprenticeship. The chapter relates the concepts of apprenticeship and study. The concept of apprenticeship does not seem to be the best candidate for being considered alongside the concept of study and as an alternative to learnification. The chapter shows that apprenticeship unfolds an educational dimension that clashes with the de-formative project of the "learning society". It proposes the concept of apprenticeship precisely because of the common interest in finding an educational alternative to "learnification"—"the translation of everything there is to say about education in terms of learning and learners". Apprenticeship constitutes a real educational alternative to learning.
