Prospective teachers’(PT) qualities which they possess before preservice education certainly have positive effect on their teaching profession to be a well-equipped teacher. Consequently, it is necessary to identify their metaphors for creating an opportunity to work with a common cause. It is important that PT have knowledge of the basic concepts of education during pre-service training, because it will enable basic concepts to be perceived in the same way by stakeholders such as teachers, ministries and faculty. This will make it easier for all stakeholders to work in harmony on a common ground. For this reason, it is important to determine primarily the meanings of these concepts for the PT, in order to provide a conceptual integrity and to form a starting point for strengthening the future educational practices. The purpose of this study is to reveal the perceptions of PT about the concepts of “school, teacher and student” through metaphors and hereby to facilitate the evaluation of the perceptions of these concepts. In this qualitative study, phenomenological design was used. The data gathered with an openended questionnaire were investigated with content analysis. In the results, 275 participants generated 494 valid metaphors. In “school”, outstanding metaphors are supporting psycho-social development and security threat. In “teacher”, featured metaphors are fulfilling the needs of students in affective and cognitive domains and restricting students’ interest and ability. In “student”, prominent metaphors are being enthusiastic for education and being reluctant.