This post was inspired by reading about some software called EVE 2.4. It helps teachers find similar sentence structure and such in articles on the Internet, so they can detect plagiarism in student’s work. I was upset that something like this is needed. Don’t teachers have enough hurdles in the classroom today?

Isn’t the point of going to college the attainment of an education? I never understood cheating on papers. It’s your mother language, least you could do is learn how to write well using it.

Writing a paper should be something that you do to prove to the teacher that you know your shit and that from now on, he/she can go easy on you. Make the first paper of the year the very best thing you can do. That way, every paper after that is graded with the professor thinking, “I don’t have to read too closely, Billy really knows his shit.”

You know, if it takes cheating for someone to make it through college, maybe they should get out of college. Not everyone needs a degree. We need car mechanics and forklift drivers and people are skilled at working with their hands. Maybe that might suit some of these kids struggling in college so much. This idea in America that every kid can be President and needs to go to college is a big load of bullshit foisted on us by some liberal desire to equate educational success with self-esteem.

The truth is if a car mechanic is good at what he does and takes pride in work, even though he may not have graduated high school, he can make over 100K a year and have a nice life. We should adopt a system that weeds out the wheat from the chaff and sends people to schools that are geared toward skills and educations for which they have a proclivity.

For every kid from the hood who goes to college and becomes a success, there’s 10 kids from the suburbs whose parents force them into college, where they fail out, get addicted to drugs, kill themselves, or generally fuck up. So, what’s the greater good for the greater number of people?