Vocational education has always been closely related to the character of a society, the importance it attaches to work, and the social values respected by the members of its community. Its primary goal is to teach the skills and practical competence requisite for different types of employment. In the past, professions were inherited by descendants of families from the older generations. The mastery accomplished by forefathers and passed on to their successors in vocations like carpentry or weaving was compared to the relatively poor level of craftsmanship in the era of massive industrialization. In the 19th century, traditional skills achieved after many years of rigorous apprenticeship were abandoned, giving way to the factory system where experience-building training was applied directly on the job. Consequently, the number of craftsmen performing high-skilled manual work began to decrease as they were gradually replaced by machinery and, finally, by perfectly precise computers. This rapid computerization, however, has created a wide gap between those whose knowledge of modern technologies is profound and those who still lag behind. Given that computers and their various uses are much more complicated than anvils or chisels, it definitely takes an equally intensive and elaborate training to educate good and productive workers nowadays.