Is there any other way of living in which you and I can function in our true vocation? Is there not one vocation for man? Are there different vocations? We see that there are ... innumerable varieties of vocations and we see they are in conflict with each other.

I say there is only one vocation for man, not many. The one vocation for man is to find out what is real. If you and I are finding out what is truth, which is our true vocation, then in the search of that I shall not be competing with you, I shall not fight you though you may express that truth in a different way...

So, is it possible from childhood, through right education, through the right educator, to help the student to be free to find out what is the truth about everything - not just the truth in the abstract, but the truth of all relationships - the boy's relationship to machinery, his relationship to nature, to money, to society, to government, and so on? This requires, does it not, a different kind of teacher who is concerned with giving the boy, the student the freedom - so that he begins to investigate the cultivation of intelligence which can never be conditioned by a society which is always deteriorating...

So is there not one vocation for man?