“Bad Education may end your life” : Role of education in suicides happening these days
1. Every Incident that takes place necessarily reveals either individual, social or global ongoings
and thereby a whole new world of ideas,possibilities and varied perceptions. Suicide is also one of
them which teaches us about how the anxiety coming out from society in the response to the
pressure,people's unnecessary comments and their behaviour on the victim may lead to these
incidents.But i think that incidents like suicide do create the ways to explore about the world of
state of mind of an individual.In the country like India where every day 371 people are killing
themselves(data are taken from 2012 survey done by N.C.R.B.),it is crucial for us to worry about
it.It is really serious topic to think about and it has become a hidden tragedy for a country like
India which may become more tragic in coming years if we (by we,i mean society) will not take it
seriously.The alarming and steadily increasing numbers of suicides indicate about how materialism
has made people so much dangerously competitive where they don't have significant space and time
for their self.
Also data show that 5.5% out of total suicide cases were of students which also indicates that kids
today are finding it difficult to cope up with situations.Also the stress being put on students is also
becoming difficult to deal with in which society,school(exceptions are also there) and authorities
have played disastrous role to increase stress and pressure for doing well in their academics and
extracurrics. Here,I will discuss about mostly student's life because this is that part of life which
defines major part of personality and psychological equations for individual one.Also it was found
2. that out of 80% of suicide victims in India were literate which indicates that their education have to
do with problem of suicides.
Firstly, I thought that i would be providing you some data to illustrate you to some basic aspects of
our system that somehow manages to make you so competitive that your ability to cope up with
situations can be very less.It eventually may lead to self obsessions and sometimes very false
perception of yourself. But I thought that i would give you some real examples of it which i
personally know and have shown me that system's working has made today people very self
obsessed that they may be fooling themselves or others by making wrong perception of
themselves.Sometimes if they find that they are not performing well in the race of competition,they
start doing unethical things , some of them getting depressed by the gesture of failure or
suggestion/fear of failures.Actually I have prepared for entrance for IIT for about two years in my
11th & 12th which somehow I managed to clear,but one thing that I saw during this coaching is the
stress put by society,coachings & student himself. Many students who could not be lucky enough to
crack it or think that they won't able to make it started making wrong presumptions about
themselves, sometimes ending up blaming parents for not guiding well in building of their
career( actually many consider getting in to I.I.T. as granted successful career).Also even in
premier institutes like IITs,NITs & IIMs ,suicides cases are reported every year due to immense
pressure being put up by family and society.
So, Those who are not able to perform well in this education system are stressed because of
failure ,while those who manage to perform well are depressed because of suggestion/gesture of
failure or because of self obsession.
3. Let me tell you a true example, As you guys know that today Facebook status, profile updates have
been becoming young student's matter of their self respect.I came across 4 guys (genuinely
speaking) on F.B., who updated their status as an IITian from IIT Delhi,Mumbai , Kanpur (two of
them claiming to be from IIT-D),Unfortunately two of them were my friends on F.B. sadly.I came to
know about it via some friend that they could not make it so they started making false impression of
them as I.I.T grade to make sure that their so called self respect won't be hurt, when I messaged
them about it to help them in this situation then they were outraged at me to talk about it. That is
how our education policy has made an adverse effect on student's mindset. “Now days people have
forgotten the aim of education and training” according to a professor at I.I.T. Delhi.I think young
students are forced to have rote learning rather than having intellectual qualities these days which
ultimately makes them weak in dealing with situations.Lack of this intellectuality sometimes play
pivotal role in family problems.Today people don't play sports which is very crucial for
concentration.They spend their time in mugging up the things all the time for competition, high
percentage in boards,their repute e.t.c. Their inability to cope up with difficult situations in their
life make them very discouraged towards their life so they start doing unethical things such as
indulging themselves in drugs,smoking to keep away their attention from situations.
4. Also one thing that seemed very interesting to me was that School Boards (especially in C.B.S.E.)
won't let you worry for passing the exams till 10th but in 11th ,they suddenly increase the quality of
standard books (though it is proper level at 11th but schools in small town are totally ignorant
about condition of classes till 8th but for 10th and 12th ,they start pressing you as they want good
impression of school in board results.For 10th ,they can have home exams with very flexible
marking scheme,when it comes for 12th they really put very much stress on them to have good
marks which is also responsible for high stress outcome) which creates problem for those who did
not take it seriously before.The problem with this system is not that it is bad to have C.C.E. in
C.B.S.E. but to implement it.Unless until we have student teacher ratio of atleast 20:1 in India we
won't be able to get proper results.
So you can understand the importance of education in suicides here in India.I hope that I
carried out my work enough to make you feel about interconnection of our education to
suicides.I hope you guys will be having healthy discussion on it and will make it possible for you
to have in your classroom discussions also making your teacher to arrange a discussion on it.
Also sorry guys, I was quite late to publish it. I also want to thank Vishal Singh for editing!!!
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