More on school.

[jackofallgeeks]

This article on cheating in Grad school (with remarks on cheating in undergrad and highschool) brings up a number of thoughts. Is it in part the academic dishonesty of our students that's causing us such educational woes as presented Here and elsewhere in my blog? or is it some fault in the schooling system that causes students to cheat? Perhaps (and this is my preferred theory), as mentioned in the article, it's our society's focus on 'success' and getting ahead and beating the Joneses that causes these problems. It's always about getting the best job, the highest pay, the most stuff, and being on top. You know what? I'd rather be in a three-room apartment living paycheck to paycheck if I were happy and healthy than have the kind of 'success' that turns good men bad.