Howard Gardner says the attitude he's seen among elite college students is, "We want to be famous and successful. We think our peers are cutting corners, that we're damned if we're going to lose to them and one day, when we make it, we'll be role models until then, give us a pass (Gardner).” If a student who cheats gets an A on a test and the student who doesn't cheat gets an A, the student who doesn't cheat will feel very discouraged and perhaps even cheat on the next test to do better. Cheating isn't just important in students who are just trying to stay current and not fall behind. According to the New York Times, large-scale cheating has been exposed in the past year at some of the nation's top schools and, most recently, at Harvard (Perez-Pena). is evidence that cheating has gotten worse over the years, and both good and below-average students cheat now more than ever. Donald L. McCabe, a professor at Rutgers University Business School and a leading researcher on cheating , says: “I don't think there's any doubt that students have become more competitive, under more pressure and, as a result, tend to apologize more from themselves and from other students, and this is encouraged by adults.” that surround them (Maccabe).” Students are expected to get good grades and do well on tests. When a student is struggling, a teacher or his or her parents will say, "You better raise that grade, or else." information and apply it to your everyday life or whatever." As a society we value higher grades over higher knowledge. We need to change our thought process and value the knowledge a student acquires and not the score obtained in a test. Howard Gardner, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, said that “over the twenty years he has studied professional and academic integrity, the ethical muscles