The Turkish History Education course provides information about the historical backgrounds of the program development, the personalities, institutions, works and laws that are stamped on educational and intellectual processes in the Turkish society to the prospective teachers. Classroom teacher needs to be aware of their own education and training as an important part of basic academic education. This requirement entails teaching Turkish Education History course at the undergraduate level. These forms of perception of teacher education candidates to Turkish Education History course is a matter worth investigating in terms of reaching the goals of the course. Metaphors are frequently used in educational areas and reflect participants' thought on the subject. The purpose of this study which class teacher candidates participated in is to determine the perceptions of classroom teacher candidates regarding Turkish Education History course through metaphors. The study group of research includes 108 class teacher candidates who are taking this course and studying at Mustafa Kemal University in 2016-2017 academic years. The data of research was collected through forms which include inscription like "Turkish Education History course is like/similar to…………because…….." In this qualitative study, the data obtained from the participant responses were evaluated according to the metaphor analysis. According to the analysis made, 66 different metaphors developed by the classroom teacher candidates have been identified. These metaphors have brought six different categories: knowledge, value, education, individual utility, structure and transfer. While information category is the category with the greatest number of metaphors, the tree metaphor is the metaphor most frequently used by participants.