Many developing countries lack skilled manpower needed for economic and industrial development. This shortage is aggravated by the migration of trained personnel from the less developed to the more developed countries the “brain drain" and by the inefficient use of skilled workers within the developing countries. Apprenticeship training has been the method of passing down skills over the centuries up to the modern industrial era. Yet apprenticeship found its way into our statue book only in April, 1951 when the minimum Wage Law was approved, as a preventive measure against circumvention of the minimum wage law. One educator has defined the system of vocational skill training as "the minimum knowledge needed to produce the maximum skill". This study has attempted to present the minimum conditions required to make the apprenticeship training system function properly . It is the hope of the writer that the ideas presented in this study will be of help to the Philippine National Apprenticeship System.