Hello ,
Here's a devotional that I penned in 2012, but I think it's just as applicable today:
At least 125 Harvard University students are suspected of collaborating in groups or on e-mail to come up with answers to exam questions, "violating a no-collaboration policy that was printed on the exam itself." But many of the students appear shocked that they've been implicated. Some are even threatening to sue the school.
Apparently, many students seem thoroughly confused about what constitutes plagiarism. So next year Harvard may require courses for incoming students about what constitutes cheating and plagiarism. But an insightful New York Times blog asks, "Are we meant to assume that students who are smart enough to get into Harvard don't know that? Will the school later offer a course in why it is a bad idea to pour gasoline on a flaming toaster oven?"
The blogger noted, "I taught university classes for many years, and in my experience students don't decide to cheat because they don't know better. They cheat ... because they've imbibed the message--from parents, from peers, from schools--that looking successful is more important than being honest. They cheat because they have been taught, however unwittingly, that it is worth it."
