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India’s Education Crisis: What We’re Not Talking About
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May 12, 2025
India’s education system is under pressure from rankings to suicides, coaching scams to neglected schools. This video uncovers the harsh truths behind the marks. It’s time to rethink what education really means.
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another rank another suicide another
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childhood
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loss and somehow we have come to accept
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this we often talk about education being
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a great
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equalizer a ladder to opportunities but
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today it feels like the ladder is broken
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and we are watching the students fall
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one by
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one this isn't just an education system
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anymore it's a pressure cooker a
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marketplace for marks and it's quietly
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becoming one of the biggest mental
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health crisis that we do not talk about
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so today let's pause and look at what's
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happening behind Indian classrooms
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campuses and coaching center because
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behind every rank there's a story india
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proudly boasts about having 69
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universities listed in the QS World
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Rankings 2024 and we are second only to
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China and Asia but let's be honest
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what's behind those numbers outdated
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syllabus low global research output
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faculty shortages instead of focusing on
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innovation critical thinking and actual
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learning now institutions are chasing
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rankings and students students are busy
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memorizing facts for the exams that do
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not even teach them how to live or how
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to critically think it's heartbreaking
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how divided our education system has
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become on one hand we have underfunded
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government schools and on the other we
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have expensive private schools and
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coaching centers only available to the
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privileged ones even the poor families
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know that the school that the children
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go to might not have usable toilet or
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even
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teachers and while
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67.5% of India's universities are
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private a majority of students still
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study in public institutions
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school isn't enough there's always
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coaching this industry has become a
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monster of its own a 58,000 crud
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behemoth that makes a business out of
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fear and parental guilt kota India's
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so-called coaching center earns over
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rupees 100 cr a year from coaching fees
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big names like Alan Career Institute
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makes over 1 K 20 lak rupees annually
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and ectic giants like Baiju were once
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valued at rupees 1.8 K we call it
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guidance but what it actually is is a
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parallel education economy that forc a
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student to study for 12 to 14 hours
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without
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break only pressure and this is where it
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gets truly painful in 2023 alone Kota
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saw 29
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suicides student suicides
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that is 29 young people who believed
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that giving up on their life or taking
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their own life was easier than
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disappointing their families or failing
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an exam nationwides is even worse
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13,089 students died by suicide in
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2022 that's nearly 35 students every
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single day imagine what it takes to for
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a teenager to give up a life like that
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rajasthan's new reforms and WH's suicide
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prevention protocols helped reduce the
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numbers in
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2024 but this pressure is still on and
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it's silently crushing thousands more we
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say that we are preparing the next
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generation for a knowledge economy but
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how when we are forcing them to muck up
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the entire textbook and not teaching
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them how to question how to create how
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to reason
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most exams still reward memory over
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meaning creativity gets buried under
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notebooks and mark sheets this isn't
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education this is programming and when
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the pressure gets unbearable corruption
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thrives in the few years alone Bihar TT
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scam MP vapum scam BPSC paper leak
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entire cheating mafia's proxy candidates
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and bribe officials turning exams into a
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joke it's not just dishonest it's an
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attack on the credibility of our
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education system and amidst all this
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mental health it's barely even a
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conversation most schools do not even
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have a counselor outside metros
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conversations about mental health are
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non-existent india now has the highest
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suicide rates among youth globally and
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yet we still keep piling pressure on
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students glorifying 12-hour study
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routine like it's some badge of honor
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while we glamorize toppers and campus
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placements over 1.1 lakh government
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schools operate with just one teacher
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20% don't even have usable toilets
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thousands of teaching post remains
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vacant and we still dream of building a
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digital India while students don't even
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have basic sanitation how can we talk
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about AI and global leadership when we
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haven't even fixed classrooms in our own
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villages ask any student today when was
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the last time they enjoyed studying
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something
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we have become so obsessed with
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marksheets that we have forgotten what
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education was meant to be not designs
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not series but questions ideas and
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curiosity we don't need cosmetic fixes
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we need a complete overhaul a curriculum
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that fosters creativity and not wrote
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mental health support in every
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educational
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institute coaching institutions to be
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strictly regulated
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teachers empowered with training and
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most importantly a society that stops
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woriing marks because education isn't
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about creating robots for exams but
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about preparing humans for life so let's
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stop chasing marks and start chasing
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meaning an education system that drives
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students to the edge isn't educating
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it's
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eroding behind every rank is a story
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behind every student is a soul and
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behind every dream is the duty of a
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nation
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