Srinagar, May 9 -- By Mohammad Arfat Wani

A disturbing design has settled into educational life in Kashmir and far beyond it.

Hardly a week passes without reports of harassment inside campuses, leaked chats between students and teachers, emotional manipulation through social media, drug abuse inside colleges, or public scandals that leave institutions scrambling to protect their image.

These controversies spark outrage for a few days, then disappear into the noise of the next one. The deeper crisis keeps growing.

Educational institutions once stood as places where young people learned discipline, restraint, character, and intellectual seriousness. Teachers occupied a position that commanded respect because society viewed them as custo...