The importance of HONESTYTo be deemed "honest" is to be "held in honor," to be respected and judged "decent" and "creditable." The honest person is one who "deals fairly and uprightly in speech and act. . .who is sincere, truthful, candid. . .someone who will not lie or cheat or steal," (O.E.D.) and so, a person who may be trusted.* Honesty in this sense of the word then, is a virtue that rewards its possessor.For the person who is part of an academic community, honesty in academic work engenders trust and ensures credibility and authority. At Monmouth College, where high value is placed upon learning through the free exchange of ideas, our academic community must be able to trust to the truthfulness, sincerity, and candor of its working members. Not just the reputation, but the very continued existence of the academic community depends upon adherence to standards that authenticate our processes of education. And so at Monmouth College, in order to sustain the credibility and authority of our educational aims, we describe and enforce standards of academic honesty.To put this matter another way, as money is the currency of the banking industry, ideas are the "currency" of higher education. While a family may be rather casual about money and financial records at home, it would be a very serious matter if employees of a bank failed to keep detailed and accurate records or did not insist upon accounting for all cash. Such oversights in a bank might even be deemed criminal. Similarly, while it may have been acceptable for you to be rather casual in your use of ideas before coming to college, now that you are at Monmouth you are expected to be careful in accurately representing ideas as your own and in accounting for the sources of ideas that you borrow from others.To be honest may also mean, in an apparently more trivial sense, to be adjudged "neat" and "tidy." But these descriptive terms should not be seen as trivial definitions when we mean by them to suggest that authority and credibility often attend upon those who provide an orderly record of their transactions in the exchange of ideas.你自己再改改 这是从经济角度考虑写的