在一个只为大多数学生提供技术培训的社会中，那些希望在所选领域脱颖而出的人必须特别注意道德和公共政策问题。许多程序声称可以教学生如何到达目的地。应用哲学教会他们评估自己的目标，既要为自己设定的目标，也要为社会设定的目标。因此，应用哲学与传统意义上的学生的职业相关：它不仅是旨在使他们了解不断变化的就业市场的最新发展的一系列培训和再培训中的第一个，它还为学生提供了坚实的基础。无论他们的要求如何，都是进一步学习的基础。
In a society that offers most of its students only technical training, those who wish to distinguish themselves in their chosen fields must pay special attention to questions of ethics and public policy. Many programs claim to teach students how to get where they are going. Applied philosophy teaches them to evaluate their goals?both those they set for themselves and those they set for their society. Applied philosophy is thus relevant to students' vocations in the traditional sense of the word: instead of being just the first in a series of training and retraining designed to keep them abreast of recent developments in the changing job market, it provides students with a firm foundation for further learning, whatever their callings might be.