Streamline Training & Documentation: "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't trying hard enough"

Sunday, December 16, 2007

"If you ain't cheatin', you ain't trying hard enough"

This lengthy report from today's Boston Globe scarcely requires comment:

"Army Knew of Cheating on Tests for Eight Years"

The title of my post comes from a paragraph near the end of the report:

Sergeant Daniel Meridieth said in an e-mail that his superior officer directed him to ShamSchool. "I got the Web address from my platoon sergeant, who suggested it as a 'study guide.' And my first sergeant has said many times that 'If you ain't cheatin', you ain't trying hard enough,' " a catchphrase that also appears frequently on the message boards of the cheating websites.

You can read ShamSchool's own version of its history here.

I believe it is fair to say that this Army situation is to good training practice what The Devil's Dictionary is to good lexicography.

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Labels: Evaluation of training, Military training, Professionalism

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