Acharya Prashant explains that the materialistic approach of the West is not inherently wrong, but rather incomplete. Drawing from Vedanta and the Upanishads, he emphasizes that education must consist of two components: material knowledge (Apara-vidya) and inner knowledge. He notes that the Upanishads warn that ignoring material education leads to severe suffering, even more so than the lack of inner education in some contexts, because worldly ignorance leads to superstition and external enslavement. Conversely, a lack of inner knowledge leads to being enslaved by one's own internal tendencies and ego, which is equally detrimental.