Acharya Prashant defines education as the movement from our "somber fact" to our "splendid possibility." He elaborates that this should be a movement from the "sordid, primitive fact of our physical existence" to the "glorious, splendid possibility of the liberated human being." He questions whether this is the very definition of education, but then asserts that this is not the intention of the current system. The speaker explains that the makers of the education system view the student as a raw material input and the graduate as a finished product. This product is designed to serve the needs of the social order and, in the process, enrich itself. For instance, if the existing social and economic order requires people who can produce shoes, the education system will be directed towards educating young people about leather, tanning, shoes, and marketing. The incentive offered is that if one performs these tasks well, they will receive material comforts like money and respect from society. He points out that this system is evident in how we perceive success. We consider it a great virtue when a university's graduates find good positions in industry or government, a process we call "placement." This placement is essentially the absorption of the individual into the socio-economic order. We celebrate this, and when it happens, we call the education system "practical." The speaker concludes by questioning where liberation and truth fit into this model. He states that the current system educates you to "become something," not to "unbecome what you erroneously have become."