Plagiarizing is the start of education. Say your ABCs, do your times tables, I pledge allegiance…these are reproductions of patterns someone else gave you and tested your ability to parrot. Someday we may understand them, not just parrot them, but we all start as parrots. Whether you are a parrot your whole life or not, well that is what defines conservatives versus progressives.
Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary explains that to plagiarize is “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own: use (another’s production) without crediting the source [… or] to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.” So unless little Johnny has spent more time working out where the teacher got her lesson plan from than doing his homework, he simply read “Lessonplans.com” at the bottom of the teacher’s material whish is crediting the source, and not plagiarism, by definition
cdward 10 months ago
Hah! As if teachers had the freedom to create their own lesson plans anymore.
Just-me 10 months ago
Ah, but lesson plans.com is an approved website. Little Johnny got his plagiarized paper from an AI program.
bilbrlsn 10 months ago
Plagiarizing is the start of education. Say your ABCs, do your times tables, I pledge allegiance…these are reproductions of patterns someone else gave you and tested your ability to parrot. Someday we may understand them, not just parrot them, but we all start as parrots. Whether you are a parrot your whole life or not, well that is what defines conservatives versus progressives.
Beancounter 10 months ago
Good one! A perfect example of parroting the progressive view. Now will someone please step forward and parrot the conservative view.
NGregory1 10 months ago
Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary explains that to plagiarize is “to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own: use (another’s production) without crediting the source [… or] to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.” So unless little Johnny has spent more time working out where the teacher got her lesson plan from than doing his homework, he simply read “Lessonplans.com” at the bottom of the teacher’s material whish is crediting the source, and not plagiarism, by definition