That was an interesting read, and from my experience (both as a student and from teaching a class) is that plagiarism is a big problem. Thinking a bit more abo

That was an interesting read, and from my experience (both as a student and from teaching a class) is that plagiarism is a big problem. Thinking a bit more about it, I think that plagiarism is in big parts a symptom of another, bigger problem: making education a competition. Think about it: would stundents cheat so much if it wasn't for the pressure of getting good grades? The pressure comes from parents, peers, from the students themselves and from the fear that they won't get a job with bad grades. Grades serve multiple purposes as well: they give the students a feedback how well they performed, they determine pass/fail, and they tell a possible employer how well the student performed. Maybe detangling these purposes in some way (though I don't have a good idea how) might be a good way at reducing some of the pressure, and alleviate the pressure for good grades and thus cheating somehow?