Analyze/ The first ecological maxim in history, which is a transcription of the thought of the ancient Latin philosopher Horas, has undergone mutations over time to the point where today and especially from the 18th century, notably with the actor and French playwright Philippe Néricault, we have moved from nature in the literal sense of the term to natural to mean a person's true temperament or character.
We have therefore gone from the Latin “naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret”, in english “chase nature with pitchforks, it will always come running” to show the pre-eminence of nature over human constructions, to “chase the natural, he comes back at a gallop” to mean that it is not by revealing what we are not, that what we really are will not end up being revealed or brought to light.
Looking today at how men in general and Cameroonians in particular are lovers of cheating, we wonder if this phenomenon will one day end. In fact, many people have always had to decry corruption and its corollaries, that is to say, the other practices that revolve around it, namely embezzlement, lying and cheating, etc.
To the question of why the diversions continue despite the arrests, Hubert Mono Ndjana, Cameroonian philosopher of regret memory said on the basis of his "theory of the gap and the norm", that “it is normal for people to continue to do what they consider normal” because we are in fact in a society which is characterized by “the fact of having set aside the norm and having normalized the deviation.”
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So there is nothing more to be done to remedy the situation? Certainly not! The concrete actions implemented to resolve these problems take time because these scabrous attitudes have taken the time to take root in our habits to the point where some young people have adopted such attitudes because they remain convinced that it is the best way to achieve social success. But since we cannot continue to condone lying or cheating to be more precise, the authorities seem more and more to have measured the extent of the problem and this is seen in particular through candidates were disqualified for false diplomas on several occasions and following the same exams competition. This means that you can take measures at the end of an exam competition hoping for changes in the future but the following sessions you are still obliged to take the same strict measures because individuals are used to laxity and impunity. There is no need to ask how such people will behave when they are in positions of responsibility. It is certain that it will be chaos because they will only perpetuate what has always been tolerated and which they themselves have copied because they have realized that it has become in some way a norm and that everyone can afford to do what they want and nothing will happen because the smartest, the most astute or the one who has the most financial means is always right. And the problem is not only at the exams competition levels.
During an official examination, a general secondary education teacher was surprised by the fact that candidates from the room where he had been assigned to control the progress of a test, solving the test took less time than usual. This observation seemed even more bizarre to him because from experience, he knows that students or candidates during this specific test usually take much longer. At the end of the test and to his great surprise, it turns out that the test was already on social networks the day before. We could say by what alchemy but there is nothing occult about it. The art of cheating has taken root in societies to the point of reaching more considerable proportions with the development of social networks. In addition, honesty, which is a true value, is increasingly lacking in popularity. And with the growing development of social networks, liars and cheats have even more sophisticated means to spread better their values and shame a country which can still boast of having quality training despite everything.
Even as the natural always comes back at a gallop or even as we have normalized the gap to set aside the norm, it is not through this way of proceeding that we will become true models of social success.
Cameroon needs all those who are ready to serve it honestly and above all who are ready to fight attitudes which have persisted long enough and have brought nothing good except for tears for some and for others a shame which is also ours since on several occasions and for similar reasons, we have cases of cheating here, cases of false diplomas there, cases of corruption here, cases of embezzlement there, parents who encourage their children to cheat here and very worrying cases of dishonesty there.
One might wonder where the honesty has gone but it is there and can be seen through the daily efforts to produce a quality service which translates concretely into the exclusion of applications characterized by falsified diplomas because of an addiction to deplorable practices which have lasted long enough and torpedoed or diverted the conscience of a good number of young Cameroonians who see the path of lying as the best way to succeed when it is quite the opposite.
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