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From: mmtowfig@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU (Mark Mehdi Towfigh)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Cheating vs. Learning
Message-ID: <305@phoenix.PRINCETON.EDU>
Date: Sun, 17-May-87 22:47:08 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 17 22:47:08 1987
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In article <863@gvax.cs.cornell.edu> hal@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins) writes:
>>Cheating is a problem only for cheaters.   
>
>Alas, this isn't true.  
>
>The real problem is that it also hurts the students who do their own
>work, and whose grades can suffer if someone else cheats.

Actually, cheating is a problem for people who care more about grades
than what they learn in the course.  Cheaters are those people who care
SO much about these grades that they turn to desparate acts to get the
grades they want.  I personally don't care about what other people think
of my grades too much;  I'd rather pay attention to what I'm learning
and let good grades follow, and if I get a good grade, it's not the
end of the world, just an indication I should be working harder.