see you all in five years when it’s recommended to us all again.

"The reason children cheat is because the school system values grades more than children value learning. " - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

College - Don't cheat Also college - we know you're an art history major, but you have to take this Calculus class, even though you specifically chose art history because you're bad at math

Prof Harvey was my first CS professor way back in the day! Loved his lectures, and am glad he's getting some love on KZfaq.

"The reason you don't cheat is that you will become a person that quotes people in the internet to sound smart without even knowing the person who was originally behind the quote." -Aristoteles 330BC

"WHY YOU SHOULD NOT CHEAT" -Recommended for you

Cheating is a terrible feeling, but failing gives you suicidal feelings

I've cheated multiple times during my studies. I feel absolutely no remorse. If I'm going to be assessed in such a cut-throat way, I will do what I can to succeed.

This was so inspiring that I stopped cheating on my wife

I love how KZfaq recommends this to everyone during the coronavirus online school era when everyone’s cheating.

I never cheated on my exams at university, but during the weekly assessements cheating / copying answers while understanding what was copied was common, and I must say it was a great way to learn, and I still remember some of those questions. That was for me like cooperation

I remember putting such little effort into a biology assignment I didn’t use the text book or internet. I was okay with getting bad marks on it. But then the teacher tried to say i plagiarized when I hadn’t used any information materials at all. Just off the top of my head. One of the most frustrating encounters of me not caring and a teacher thinking I cared enough to cheat. Smh.

I’m proud to say I never cheated a single time throughout school. I failed most of my classes and dropped out but that’s beside the point.

“I don’t wanna fly an airplane that was engineered by someone who cheated in this class” *2020 zoom class tests*

A lot of the students that missed this lecture went on to design and manufacture planes at Boeing

I understand his sentiment. But the real world doesn’t reward honesty. Unfortunately. Fake it till you make it!

my teacher always says " your integrity is worth way more than a number"

Current situation: - Exam tommorow - Preparing cheat sheets KZfaq: *Don't cheat*

In my experience as an engineer (25 years) - the people that cheat, backstab, lie and talk themselves up always do a lot better than the technical experts.

Honestly man, you know what, this speech right here just gave me a different outlook. I’m someone who cheats a lot on tests, quizzes, you name it. You never know when it’s gonna catch up to you. Ive decided I’m gonna continue cheating, but this really changed my outlook on doing it.

"Don't cheat off the guy next to you because they're probably an idiot." -my 6th grade teacher

Grading on a curve is evil... This statement is pure gold

If the school system wouldn’t be structured, in a way, that if you make mistakes you get punished for it. That’s how it feels when you make mistakes, which will result in to a rhythm and a lifestyle where you do not want to make any mistakes. You learn from mistakes, that’s the whole point. Cheating is co-operating in my opinion, they should really try to structure education in a certain way that applies to real life. Instead, we get education based on the way people lived in 1800s lmao. I study Engineering in England, almost done, yet there’s 1 teacher that always says:”I don’t even know why we don’t teach you guys the stuff that the companies, that are waiting on you, are demanding from people nowadays. Instead you guys are learning physics, maths and aspects you won’t need to use in the business.” School system is fucked.

I’m 28 years old and it took me forever to get out of my basics . Because I never cheated . Life taught me a lot on the way! Life will teach you more than any class room ever can . I’ve learned that having a little street knowledge and learning a little bit of books is always the way to go . I’ll be graduating with my bachelors in 2 weeks! Thank you

I think I need to restart the story of GTA San Andreas ..

This is so true I passed my hiv test without cheating

As someone with a degree that actually never cheated but was several times close to doing it: don't feel bad about it. The pressure can be immense especially if you come from a family that has to pay for your college while being close to poor. The thing is though that you absolutely should study the things in your curriculum. In the end you are only betraying yourself and getting a good education is a privilege, even if the concept of exams is absurd.

This was one of the greatest lectures I have ever listened to in my life. Really it was.

"grading on a curve is evil" i wish more people adopted his ideas.

my teacher says; what do you call someone who cheated through medical school? *a doctor. you call them a doctor*

He speaks facts. Now, the real job schools have, is to make students be actually interested in the subjects, make them feel useful, make them feel like they’re actually building something.

I SO agree with this professor. It is about your own moral integrity. I am old now, but never will I forget my first year English professor, who called out one student in our class mercilessly (how I cringed for her!) because she cheated on an essay. I was just 16, and already had a fairly good sense of myself, and wasn’t about to cheat, but boy, did that event hit home. For me it is about intellectual honesty, and is something I have always put a very high value on.

This would be better if he was assembling a sniper rifle the whole time.

The price of tuition has inflated to unbelievable levels. Students quite literally cant afford to risk not doing well in a class.

In A&P class, I loved it. I studied hardcore, reading chapters 2-4 times, writing my own questions. It was the height of my learning at that time. The teacher gave out tests that were multiple choice. But they were pretty damn hard. He did this for almost 2 full semesters. Then one test day, out of the blue, he slaps a fill in the blank and essay test on the class. No one was prepared. Everyone in the class failed the exam except for me. I got a 72%. I barfed up quotes and filled the pages with long definitions and answers, even quoting the page number in the text book. But when I got to one question, "what are the six characteristics of the knee joint?" I listed 6 characteristics which were subheadings in the textbook. I quoted text in each subheading and the page numbers. But the teacher marked them wrong because he wanted the names of the six ligaments. I wrote out a letter to him, asking him to at least subtract the question from the test. I used logic that was sound. He didn't even read it. I handed it to him, and he threw it in the trashcan before i even left the room. From that moment on, I cheated on his tests. I got the questions before hand for every test and memorized them and the answers. Do I regret doing that? Yes and no. He was a prick, but I was only hurting myself. I still had to learn overarching principles of my life, and where they fit in my life. Now I work at a hospital and I strive to be the best in the department.

It took me 6 years to finish college. Almost everyone I know who finished in 4 in my major (computer science) used chegg or would find answers online in someway. The way college is set up in America makes it much more rewarding and time saving to cheat and figure out why the those answers are the way they are afterwards

Plot twist: he cheated and stole the speech from another professor.

“Grading on a curve is evil” tell that to every professor I have

“Cheating is just, the smart man’s expert” -Johan Goodwin

I didn’t cheat throughout school and got kicked out for bad grades, now I’m suicidal

I had a teacher that told me “Cheat smarter not harder.”

This sounds like something a cheater would say.

Imagine if someone got this video in their recommendation after they cheated

12 years later... This is still being watched💯

My teacher had this video in one of her tabs then she gave a speech Almost exactly like this

that’s why you guys better stay healthy. your surgeon could’ve skipped page 10 of their textbook

Don’t cheat, but please assign 10 hours of extra work for home so we can study freely in the last 2 hours of our day before dinner and getting ready for bed.

I used to prepare for exams by doing all the past papers. The lecturers rarely did anything truly new - same kinds of questions with the same kinds of answers. I often wondered what good it was that I could only pass in this way. It wasn't too far off from cheating.

He speaks so truthfully that even auto generated captions are 100% accurate

90% of people: “interesting, i shall take this information and do nothing with it”

What I've learned in all my years of working, besides just being plain lucky, is that the people who do the bare minimum amount of work, but who are good buddies with the managers, are the ones who go straight to the top. Hard work gets you nowhere in most work situations. The harder you work, the more work you're simply given to do by your boss, while the phony baloney cheaters, losers, and suck-ups get promoted to the top and get paid a ton of money for achieving nothing, work-wise. That's the truth about the working world, from my experience.

“The way you do anything is the way you do everything.”

“Nah.” - zoom class of 2020s

When I was at school, I often tried to cheat by writing cheat sheets I put so much effort into making them, I subconsciously learned everything I wrote down, resulting in me not having to use them I basically tricked myself into studying

So many comments saying ‘School only values grades so I’ll just cheat anyway,’ but I think the professor actually knows this reasoning and disagrees with it. What I think he’s saying is to not ‘stoop down’ to school’s level and only focus on the grade. If it is possible to learn the subject decently then you should do it anyway without cheating because that way you build an ethic for doing things ‘right’ which should help you throughout your life. Yes, obviously, the world and the economy isn’t a completely fair system that will reward this all the time but there is definitely a benefit to doing things without cutting corners that should be appreciated.

imagine cheating in the 90s, like you have to write everything down and basically study to cheat.

*I cheated through school because I want to be a politician.*

If what’s on the test doesn’t apply to your job or career and your future depends on it, it’s going to be hard not to consider cheating.

Our professor was of opposite opinion. Why remember stupid tables and engineering coefficient (etc.) and then get tested from that? You will be able to use books, resources, the internet and your colleagues in your future work. Do the work and what is really important will stick around in your memory. We could use all the resources a person in reality could on his exams and we actually got to solving real problems. To this day, I remember the most from his lectures.

I have a feeling this was made way back where you couldn’t find answers to everything online. Oh, how times have changed lol

Average programmer googling every single thing during his job: "Interesting"

When he says, "I don’t wanna fly an airplane that was engineered by someone who cheated in this class" that's a great point if what you're learning in class relates to what you're going to do in your career. Unfortunately, it's often the internship that you learn the most applicable knowledge. For most majors, college is a tedious process of doing 'busy work' and making deadlines for the degree. The degree signifies to an employer that you have some level of conscientiousness - but it usually isn't a signifier of any level of competency in your field.

College board paying youtube to recommend this to us before the ap test

“I don’t wanna fly in an airplane that was programmed by someone who cheated in his class”. Yeah, you got that right

I cheat in exams. Yes. Friends used to call me, "the Gadget Guy" because I cheat in numerous ways and I luckily, I pass all subjects during my degree. But I only cheat in exams and not in everyday life. I don't cheat my wife, my parents, people whom I dealt with, friends, cheat in my work, no I don't cheat.

“If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying” - Abraham Lincoln

School system: Don't cheat Me: no KZfaq: Don't cheat Me: ok

“I don’t wanna fly on a plan that was programmed by a guy who cut class” *boeing recalls the 737 Max

When the colleges/universities stop cheating me out of tuition money, time, and a quality education in general, I’ll be glad to listen to anything you have to say.

One time in high school we were allowed all sorts of cheat notes on one maths examn, but they had to be self written. The point was, If you spend Time to write those notes and understand how to use the things you write, you Will also learn in the process. There was no point writing down formulae that you didn't Even understand nor couldnt use in practice. It was a great way to learn!

This man is speaking facts and now I’m not cheating on my DNA tests.

“I don’t wanna fly an airplane that was engineered by someone who cheated in this class” Boeing: HOLD MY BEER

This is sharp contrast to Naruto, where it glorified cheating. Cheating is not dishonest - it's a way to solve a problem.

I don’t go to university to learn, I go to university so I can get that piece of paper and then get an actual job where I can learn. I’ve been doing an accounting degree for 3 years and most the stuff I learn is completely useless. I’d know 10x more about accounting if I just got a bookkeeping job straight out of school and worked there for 3 years.

"You condemn yourself to doing something you do not like doing." That's a great point

"I dont want to fly in an airplane that was programmed by someone who cheated in his class" -> 737MAX

“ChatGPT write a 500 page long essay with counterpoints as to why cheating is a morally and ethically good thing to do.”

The most refreshing part about this speech is that he pulled off a rape joke and no one got all bent out of shape.

You shouldnt cheat on something you actually want to become. But if you need to do something that is just there for the sake of the grade, cheating makes no difference.

I rarely cheated in my school career, but when on a professional school you are learning things that got deprecated 23 years ago with the introduction of html 4, you have to question yourself why you go to that institution in the first place. I didn't go there to learn, I went there to get a piece of paper.

The best thing that a teacher can do to teach his children properly is to teach them that failure is okay because you still gain something more valuable than learning. That is why I suggest to give them to hit the gym to grow more muscles as a metaphor of learning. You will surely fail at each set but still you feel better doing it because it will give you more fulfillment in life. If a gym is necessary, give them the right way of doing it. Besides, the people who don't want to learn are people who bears heavy toil of working hard labor. So giving them this lesson will surely teach them to apreciate that life is harder than what they are expecting.

I miss my teachers man School fucking sucked for me personally but I was lucky enough to have teachers that actually cared about me

“What are you gonna do when you actually get a job” well, in my experience the workers who cheat are the ones who get promoted. So probably become a CEO.

"You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It's sad that you don't know the difference." - Confucius

"What are you going to do when you get a job and the person sitting next to you isn't doing the same thing" Make it up on the fly, cutting every corner along the way and still get paid.

To be fair, tests can sometimes be really stupid because it prevents people from succeeding in life. There's no opportunity to move forward, you either pass or you don't. I know many people who've cheated on exams and are doing so well in their careers because it's not always about what you know, but how well you do.

I like how this was recommended to me after I cheated on a test

I was here. October 4, 2019. Just in case that it was recommended again after 10 years.

I worked hard through college. But I cheated where I needed to. I was a business major, supposedly we're the major most infamous for cheating. But I never cheated off another person's paper, per se. I would find ways to sneak my own notes into tests. Now I'm an accountant. Every aspect of my job has a trail. Everything is recorded. If I'm ever unsure how to do something, all I have to do is look back at the history of how it was done before 🙃

I’d like to see which kids took this speech to heart and where they are now

This was very inspiring to listen to and honestly his speech has moved me, no joke this was very motivational and after deep consideration I have decided that I will still cheat

"The person who you are now is constructing who you will be for the rest of your life." *Me who has been depressed and lonely as fuck during univerity:* Well that's reassuring. Edit: Heh. This blew up, didn't it? Well, thanks for the kind words everyone. It's a bit too late for me, I'm afraid - I'm graduating - so I'll never be able to make up the opportunity that I lost here. I did everything right as well. I put myself out there, I tried to make friends. But some people just didn't want me around it seems, and did everything possible to make that happen. Oh well. Sometimes, you just end up with the short straw. But hopefully now I can put this mess behind me and move on.

I'm weirdly mixed on this one. Like, I don't cheat. I would feel terrible doing it, and I'm a moron who refuses to make things easy for themselves. But at the same time I honestly don't blame a lot of people for cheating-and I know quite a few who did. It does kind of shoot your learning in the foot; those people who cheated often didn't have a good grasp of what they skimmed over, and had a hard time applying it in other situations. But university doesn't really feel like its end goal is education at this point. It's a transaction. Your money and time goes in, and a degree comes out, which is the ticket to a job (and the university is *always* trying to get more of your money). Often what you learn isn't even all that applicable to the jobs out there, as innovations have occurred that the older profs never kept up with. There's all these speeches about the sanctity of learning, and how you should be glad you're there to begin with, so you should take it seriously. But universities aren't there to *teach* people-they DO teach people, but that's just something they have to do to make money. It is a business, and the students are the customers, so I don't blame them for resorting to any means necessary to get what they paid for. I wouldn't feel this way if university was "free", or people got in based off scholarly merit alone. If that was the case, and education was the sole intent of the system, than cheating would truly feel like a moral failing. But unfortunately I live in North America, and in a lot of ways, things really suck here. So if someone isn't from a rich family and actually has to work their way through school, it is a HELL of an ask to tell them to throw away a third of a year during the prime of their lives, and enough money to cover rent and food for a month, for morals. To get away from education, it's like if you put a person in a room with a button, and told them that even though no-one else will know, they're a bad person if they press it; but if they don't press the button they have to flip a coin where if they get tails, they lose 4 thousand dollars. Most people will press the button.

I mean, definitely agree, but if it's for a gen ed, I'm flexible. My school forced us to take this god awful class, where the teacher didn't have any idea what he was teaching or why, and yet made us all buy SEVEN textbooks, of which we used maybe three pages from two books. Our grades were determined by our attendance, and a final exam. No quizzes, no homework, none of that. Oh yeah, and HE GAVE US THE FINAL EXAM THE DAY BEFORE WE TOOK IT. I was the type of student who didn't do much homework, but got through because my class participation was top notch, so you'd think I'd be godlike at a class with no homework. Nope. I've never cheated for anything before or since, but I was backed into a corner. I'd tried my best to pay attention, but i had no idea what the teacher was trying to communicate, and the exam had nothing to do with anything we had touched on in the class. So I squeezed every answer I could onto a notecard I cut up so I could palm discreetly, feeling guilty, but also angry enough at the bullshit to do it anyway. I get to the exam, sit in the very back row, and the guy closest to me has his entire notebook open, sitting on the floor. Barely making any effort to hide it at all. I couldn't believe it, but it made me feel better to have a comrade. I did feel some type of way about how hard I'd worked to cheat discretely, while this dude had a whole ass notebook lol So the teacher is walking around, observing us all to try to prevent us from cheating. Turns out, the back row was the wrong choice, because even though there's a wall behind it, you can get between it and the back row, and this is a place the teacher decides to go when making his rounds. I keep track of where he is, and make sure my card is well hidden. But the guy with his notebook open doesn't give a fuck, and the teacher walks past him multiple times, and says nothing. Bear in mind, what the teacher is walking on puts him a foot or two above the ground level we're on. This gives the guy a perfect line of sight to the other dude's notebook, so unless he was looking for cheating on the ceiling, there's no way he missed it lol After the test, I told my friends about this, and they admitted they cheated too. So we started asking other people in the class. We didn't know everyone, but everyone we asked told us they'd cheated too, and that they'd discussed it with other people they knew as well. Everyone in the class cheated on the final exam. Everyone. We couldn't find one person who didn't, and nobody knew anyone who hadn't cheated. Had to be one of the most bizarre classes I've ever taken. In hindsight, it was probably a class our ambitious department head wanted, but nobody knew how to teach it. I remember him emphasizing how crucial it was to our education, and cracking down hard on anyone who skipped. So the unfortunate guy who got stuck with it just kinda winged it, knew it was complete bullshit, and did what he could to ensure it wouldn't impact our GPAs. Pretty sure we all got A's. I'm still pissed he made us buy all those damn textbooks, but it was allegedly a history class, so it was probably part of the facade to trick the department head. It's actually kinda elegant how the teacher managed to conjure up a non-class which both satisfied our overzealous glorious leader, and didn't really ask anything of us, outside of being bored for an hour every other day or so. It was a crazy experience, and I'll never forget it

Fully expected him to say “The reason you shouldn’t cheat is because if you are caught you will be promptly expelled and rest in pieces your debt”

This is the most important part: "You condemn yourself for life doing something that you don't know how to do and don't like doing" !!!

Cheating on tests or on assignments is, for all intents and purposes, just like drug use. The less you cheat, the less likely you are to become a habitual cheater. And the more you cheat, the more likely you need to cheat in the future. This man has an excellent point.

dang this is motivational, he's saying nothing but the truth.

"it's not cheating if you don't get caught" -a random classmate

I had a college professor that would go over the test questions a day or two before the test. Or sometimes he would hand out the test and go over each question with us. He would tell us the answer Nd explain why thats the answer. I dont know why but yrs later I can remember those answers. It was a totally unique way of learning.