Human kind has needed vocation in order to deal with nutrition, accomodation and geographcal conditions for its survival. Vocational training has started in an informal form with apprentice and master relationship by living and doing. Vocational and technical training has gained importance for countries so that they would be able produce and to be a part competition after the enhancement and diversification of scientific knowledge and branches. As a result, vocational and technical training have become a part of formal education systems. Especially the increasing need for the work force after the industrial revolution has necessiated training productive individuals in vocational and technical training. The countries who have put effort in that regard are developed ones nowadays. During the transition phase from the Ottoman era to Turkish Republic, one of the significant insufficiances was putting emphasis on technical training rather than vocational one. In this context, it is obvious that there has been considerable amount of discussion and views on this issue since the Second Constitutional Era. Although Turkey has lagged behind in terms of full application of vocational and technical training in comparison to developed countries, it was during the Republican Era that the emphasis on vocational and technical training have come to the front. Foreing experts who were invited to the country as well as native ones have put forward their views and ideas in regard to vocational and technical training. In the present study, a transcription to contemporay Turkish of The Memorandum on Vocational Training written by Kemal Zaim (Sunel) and published by Directorate of Higher Education of Ministry of Education in 1927 is presented. The memoranum written 92 years ago is regarded significant since it gives an opportunity to compare the past and the present situation on vocational and technical training.