items of interest

with contributions from Stephen Goode, Robert Parham

"Like any other virtue, honesty takes on importance in the minds of the young only when significant others in their backgrounds [such as parents, teachers, coaches] talk about it and emphasize it," says Tom Lickona, director of a character education foundation at the State University of New York at Cortland, responding to questions about how to help students stop cheating.

Stephen Davis, a psychology professor at Emporia State University in Kansas, supports Lickona's view, adding that the students also have to be involved. "If they don't buy into the program, it won't go."

Quoted by Stephen Goode
"Students get A+ for Easy Cheating"
Insight
September 20, 1999

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