> Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. For sure. My anecdote is only tangentially related to the topic of this post

> Is there a difference between cheating in school and hacking school? I think so. For sure. My anecdote is only tangentially related to the topic of this post, but I always told my physics 1 students that cheating (when it came to their homework) was a state of mind, rather than an action. Most students had access to the solutions manual for their (very standard and popular) textbook, even though they weren't "supposed to". Several times I had students sheepishly admit to me that they had consulted the solutions manual, and still didn't understand the solution to a particular problem. That right there is an example of NOT cheating, because they consulted the solution with the proper mindset: they attempted the problem, got stuck, and THEN consulted a solution with the INTENTION OF LEARNING. However, a student that just pulls out the solutions manual to quickly get the problems done without attempting it themselves were cheating in my view. It didn't often matter, anyway, because these students often did terribly on the exams and had trouble passing (who would've guessed?).