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If you find your true vocation, you will help to break down this rotten system completely. Whether you are a gardener, a painter or an engineer, you will be doing something you love with your whole being; and that is not ambition. To do something marvellously well, to do it completely, truly, according to what you deeply think and feel, that is not ambition, and in that there is no fear. To help you discover your true vocation is very difficult because it means the teacher has to pay a great deal of attention to each student to find out what they are capable of. He has to help you not to be afraid, but to question and investigate. You may be a potential writer, a poet or a painter – whatever it is, if you really love to do it, you are not ambitious because in love there is no ambition. So it is very important while you are young that you should be helped to awaken your own intelligence and thereby find your true vocation. Then you will love what you do, right through life, which means there will be no ambition, no competition, no fighting another for position or prestige. Then perhaps you will be able to create a new world. In that new world, all the ugly things of the older generation will cease to exist – their wars, their mischief, their separative gods, their rituals which mean absolutely nothing, their sovereign governments, their violence. That is why the responsibility of the teachers, and of the students, is very great. From Life Ahead