Day 2

[st_minority]

Entry entry entry.

What is cheating? Do you believe in cheating? Is cheating even right? (I'm going to maybe try posting a question every day, just to keep it interesting to me.)

Comments

[spookyfbi]

I have such issues about school in general. It seems like kids learn less in school than they would without it, and it teaches kids to hoard knowledge. It also promotes the fallacy that everyone progresses at the same pace, and that not knowing as much as the next kid is something to be ashamed of. So instead of trying to learn it, they'll misbehave or just pretend to know what's going on and then parrot what the teacher said in a test. Or cheat. I mean, there's no such thing as cheating when I'm learning how to use a new computer program. How could I possibly cheat, there's no test. And yet I still learnt how to use it. Or when I'm learning how to prepare a new dish or learning how to get to a friend's new house. Ooh, mustn't cheat by looking it up in the street directory, what a ridiculous notion! Why does no one consider that cheating?
Oh, and PS- my eyes were opened to this concept by a book written in the 1920s. This is hardly a new idea, and yet most schools are still in the dark ages. So yeah, it should be put into effect, but I'm not holding my breath. When I have kids I'm so not sending them to school.