2010-03-15, 08:52 PM
2147483647 Wrote:Not if people volunteer/get paid for it.
@Beaner: Unless the material you're teaching is truly original, that definition can only at best be narrowly applied. People learn by imitation. Eventually they learn by experimentation, but assuming you're a teacher, you teach your students what's already been known. You can't make those facts truly original. Copying homework is merely obtaining it from a different source. There's seriously no difference between reading 1+1=2 from a textbook and being told by a fellow student that 1+1=2.
this makes no sense whatsoever. what is the point of this. it is obv that what we learn is school is not "new" but this is not the same as the action of copying something and passing it as your own. when i teach mendelian genetics i dont tell students i invented this, mendel did. when you copy Peters homework and say you did it it becomes cheating. now if you put a note saying "this homework was done by Peter and i copied it" then its not plagiarism, but it still defeats the end of homework and warants you a failing grade.