You can find the original post here: http://asfnhn2012s.blogspot.com/2012/03/losing-sight-of-point.html
I have also noticed this attitude in students and it seems to play a large hand in why students tend to cheat. They see nothing to gain from actually doing the work, only the goal of getting a good grade, so they find a way to get everything for nothing. We attend school not simply to become more educated but to learn to deal with problems and challenges that we may find in the world outside of the classroom. So when a student cheats they completely ignore trying to solve the problem and possibly learn instead that they can cheat their way through life, just so that they could have more time to slack off. It's a bit of an ironic twist, by cheating to get a grade, you are cheating yourself out of the skills you could learn.
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