A simple but practical education system
Education is known as the backbone of a nation. The education system plays a very important role in the development of a country as well as deciding the future of the country because the future of a country mostly depends on the students of the present time who are getting trained under the education system. In the past people were not so serious about education but now the scenario is quite different. People are very serious about it, and they are so serious about that the competition is education is quite extreme.
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From one perspective, it’s good that people are taking education seriously. It’s good for the development of the country. But the competition became so extreme that students need to face many things and need to deal with stress. Some students may take drugs also just for testing some drugs can be effective to do study better as certain drugs can help to stay awake till late. Some suffer from depression and choose to do suicide when they fail to achieve the desired result. Now, even some people even conflict even for the little difference in results. One student treats another student as a opponent. Do you think that it’s a good thing. At least I can’t think about it in that way.
As far as I can understand, nothing is good when it goes to extreme level. It’s the same as education also. Competition is good in education and can help to encourage each other and boost their speed but as long as it’s a healthy competition. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, the competition turned into an unhealthy competition. Jealousy and hate increased between students just because of the unhealthy competition. There is no way I can support such a thing as whatever is happening is not good.
As simple education system seems to be best considering the current situation. I think there is no need for rank in an education system. So that the jealousy, hate and the unhealthy competition cone be end. You may think that students won’t study well if there is no competition, but I think it’s not necessarily going to happen. I just feel we just need to change the education system the traditional system is not good enough for it.
Current education system still focuses on theoretical knowledge and in real life there are only few use cases of knowing theory. We can focus on practical knowledge. I believe that practical knowledge is somehow better to grasp as when we have something to learn related to practical life, we can remember about it with less effort. We can’t fully eliminate theoretical knowledge as it builds a foundation in many cases, but I feel that the lesson could be prepared in an interesting way rather than just by stating facts in an old, boring way. Students will find the new way interesting, and it will be easier for them to remember the lesson also.
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You've hit on something critical that education systems worldwide are struggling with. The shift from healthy competition to toxic rivalry is real, and the consequences you're describing — stress-induced substance use, depression, suicide over grades — are well-documented problems.
The research backs you up. Academic competition correlates directly with unhealthy mental outcomes in adolescents, particularly in high-pressure scholastic environments. When students start viewing classmates as opponents rather than peers, the psychological toll is severe: anxiety, chronic stress, and a warped sense of self-worth tied entirely to rankings.
The paradox is brutal. Competition can drive improvement and build resilience — but only when it's structured around mastery and growth, not zero-sum ranking. The moment education becomes a gladiatorial arena where one student's success requires another's failure, it stops being educational and becomes destructive.
@idksamad78699 makes an interesting counterpoint — arguing that distraction and inconsistency, not difficulty, are the real enemies. But that actually reinforces your point: when the system creates such extreme pressure that students resort to stimulants just to stay awake, the competition has become pathological.
Your instinct about simplicity is right. Ranking systems, percentile obsessions, and cutthroat admissions create artificial scarcity. Education should be about competence, not comparison. A student who masters calculus shouldn't care if they're 3rd or 13th in class — they know calculus. But current systems make that ranking feel like life or death.
The jealousy and hatred you're seeing? That's not a bug, it's a feature of systems designed around scarcity rather than abundance. When only the top 1% get opportunities, students are trained to see each other as threats. That's not education — it's a Hunger Games audition.