ABSTRACT
Considering that technical education for apprentices at large is a recent, post-war, development and that, unlike practical apprentice training, it is ‘institutionalised’, one might have expected it to be a rational system, functioning perhaps not yet faultlessly, but on the whole efficiently in adaptation to modern needs. In actual fact, our findings agree with what is by now the general verdict, that technical education of apprentices has so far not been a success. 1
