Put in concrete terms, there is danger that vocational education will be interpreted in theory and practice as trade education: as a means of securing technical efficiency in specialized future pursuits. Dewey argues that all education should be vocational education (“The only adequate training for occupations is training through occupations” is perhaps the most frequent statement in the entire book) so long as we remember that: “To a considerable extent, the education of the dominant classes was essentially vocational—it only happened that their pursuits of ruling and of enjoying were not called professions… Unconsciously to themselves the higher institutions of learning have been made to contribute to preparation for these employments.