Acharya Prashant explains that modern education is primarily superficial because it focuses exclusively on external objects such as languages, history, mathematics, and technology. This outward-oriented education fills the mind with knowledge about things like glaciers, kings, and electromagnetic motors, but it fails to address the nature of the individual. He argues that real education must take the mind inward to understand its own processes, such as the origins of anger, insecurity, restlessness, and jealousy. Without this self-inquiry, a person remains uneducated regardless of their academic degrees, leading to a world of guided missiles and unguided men, or smartphones and stupid people. He further addresses why crime and violence persist despite children being taught moral values like truth and non-violence. Acharya Prashant asserts that ethics and morality cannot be taught through borrowed instructions or external commands. When parents tell children to speak the truth without understanding the 'why' themselves, the lesson remains foreign to the child and fails to become a way of living. True understanding of truth, love, and joy must be discovered within through the second kind of education. He concludes that unless education facilitates the freedom of the mind and internal discovery, it remains worthless and can only provide superficial conveniences while life continues to be filled with suffering and greed.