From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e08c98d7ce85399 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Kindness Date: 1999/09/03 Message-ID: <1999Sep3.125818.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520693626 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <37CC6844.AB898EEE@rational.com> <37CE93CD.799A225A@pwfl.com> <37CF0FE0.2B299477@acenet.com.au> <37CFF7DC.CFF9717C@pwfl.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 936377902 7339 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <37CFF7DC.CFF9717C@pwfl.com>, Marin David Condic writes: > Given that we don't have an actual case in front of us, perhaps we are > taking it a bit too seriously. But I think that the education of the > next generation of people who will be running the world when I retire is > a pretty important mission. Letting students think that academic fraud, > intellectual dishonesty, theft and other assorted high crimes and > misdemeanors are all just "part of the game" and are not "wrong" so long > as you can get away with it is probably a bad idea. It breeds the notion > that lying and cheating in other areas of life is O.K. - depending on > what the definition of "is" is! Another group I read has a contest going (obviously known to those who really follow the group) for the most creative non-answer to homework problems. Something that goes into great detail but cannot possibly be true is the ideal. Larry Kilgallen