Expensive Coaching & New Education System | Nope w/ Kunal Kamra ft Anita Rampal | 061

Anita Rampal is an education researcher and academic whose work focuses on school education in India. She has extensively studied textbooks, curriculum design, and how educational content is shaped by policy decisions. In this conversation, she explains how curricula are decided, what changes are unfolding under the new education system, and how these shifts impact classrooms, teachers, and students. Her insights bridge policy, pedagogy, and the everyday realities of schooling. Follow: Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/kuna_kamra/ X (Twitter) – https://x.com/kunalkamra88/ Timestamps: 0:00 – Opening 0:27 – What is broken in India’s education system 0:45 – Schooling as filtration, not education 1:31 – Right to Education and institutional failure 2:23 – Learning outcomes, exclusion, and “push-out” logic 3:02 – Exam pressure, neoliberalism, and blaming children 3:53 – Vocational tracking and early segregation 5:01 – Knowledge of the mind vs knowledge of the hand 6:05 – Education, democracy, and Ambedkar’s vision 7:24 – Schools as spaces for equality and fraternity 8:34 – Stratified schools and inequality by design 9:40 – What high-quality education systems do differently 10:32 – Finland, Scandinavia, and learning without competition 12:38 – Work-based learning and dignity of labour 14:25 – The dangers of excessive digitalisation in education 16:58 – Exams, merit, and social advantage 18:45 – Authentic assessment and learning for understanding 23:12 – Language, identity, and mother-tongue education 27:57 – Curriculum rooted in lived experience 35:27 – Reimagining education for dignity, democracy, and justice Credits • Research Head: Anirban Bhattacharya • Camera Operator / Mixing and Mastering / Intro Music — @Mahansangeet : https://www.instagram.com/hi_mahan/ • Camera Operator / Video Editor / Intro Animation — @RevantTalekar : https://www.instagram.com/revanttalekar • Camera Operator / Guest Logistics Coordinator — @VybhavSharma https://www.instagram.com/vybhavsharma/ • Production Assistant — Haran Shetty