Cheating In William Chace's Short Story 'A Question Of Honor'

Self fulfillment comes with the pleasure of getting into college and getting a degree. After all, a college education sets students up to have a job once college is over. In the short story, “Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?”, by Mark Edmundson, Edmundson talks about how college is suppose to be self fulfillment. Students must take advantage of every opportunity in college to follow your own dreams and not just take the fulfilling job but the one they want. Also, William Chace addresses in his story, “A Question of Honor”, that cheating needs to be cleaned up and fixed before it becomes a problem. Many choices are given to you in college, you have to earn it and take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way because it might …show more content…
More and more students are cheating because of several different reasons and tuition is not being as valuable for the price. Even after college, working in firms, cheating is still present with higher-ranking officials taking work from their peers and taking the credit for it. Colleges look away from all the wrong doings when it comes to cheating. Cheating is the main problem that colleges are suffering from and having students not getting the full value of what they need to know. The main goal is to eliminate the most of cheating that goes on but with honesty because the honor code only eliminates part of the soon to be crisis.
In conclusion, the honor code is effective in few of many schools but it reduces the amount of cheating being done. Discipline action needs to be taken to prevent more students from cheating and to be better prepared for the future. Students and teachers need to put their heart into learning to grow and fully understand the requirements and to be fully prepared for their future. Students, teachers, and universities need to work for the common goal of reducing the amount of cheating and making sure that the higher education is