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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Honor System & Learning (was Cheating...)
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 12:45:29 EDT
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Keywords: cheating, honor systems, crock

In article <2617@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> trent@cit-vax.UUCP (Ray Trent) writes:
>Hmmm, I've said this before, but the real problem is that schools
>don't want to work hard enough to find students that are more
>interested in learning than in getting good grades.

   I think you've got that backwards.  Schools don't *encourage* people
to be interested in learning rather than in getting good grades.  I suppose,
though, that CalTech cares so little about grades and so much about learning
as an abstraction that you don't have grades, nor official transcripts, etc.