Monday, October 09, 2006

Truth and honesty, if it's convenient

"Students believe in honesty, they believe in truth, we see that overwhelmingly," said [the] executive director of the Center for Academic Integrity at [a prestigious university]. "But at the moment of panic, those values seem to take a back seat."

This was in a plagiarism-focused, online news article I was reading this evening. Notice the job of the man who said this. Notice his attitude. (They're good kids, they just lie and cheat because we're demanding too much of them.) Academic standards may or may not be too rigorous, but when executive directors of Centers for Academic Integrity at prestigious universities are going to bat to defend plagiarists and liars, moral standards are none too rigorous - if they even exist anymore.

SRS

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