<p>I see nothing wrong with an English major cheating his way through freshman chemistry. Or a pre-med student cheating through Shakespeare. They won’t be well-rounded? Pah, I doubt the English major would have remembered much of the chemistry by the time he graduated, anyway. </p>
<p>So there’s one situation.</p>
<p>Another?
Suppose a teacher says calculator programs are not allowed because they do all the work for you, and you use one of them anyway. Evidently being able to do the material isn’t a very useful skill if the teacher can’t test it in such a way that a machine can’t simply do it all for you within seconds.</p>