Acharya Prashant explains that traditional education, including technical fields like B.Tech, focuses exclusively on the knowledge of objects such as languages, history, mathematics, and technology. While students spend years studying external systems and laws of physics, they remain strangers to themselves. He argues that education is currently object-centric, teaching students about everything outside of them while neglecting the study of the mind, conditioning, and the self. He describes this omission as a criminal lapse because it results in sophisticated technology being handled by unguided and retarded minds.