Honesty may be the worst policy to get ahead in the world

When i read the china post, i wasn't very surprised by the result of the cheating students. In the paragragh it said "To them, honesty may be the worst policy to get ahead in the world." I do believe that to most of the people cheated on every things, and to most of the company boss likes the cheaters, they don't like honesty. Once you are honest to them , it means that you are displease to them then you'll be fire. That is how the education has thought the students. I don't know is anyone has been punish in high school or junior school or maybe elementry school, well i have. I studied in South Africa in my elementry school, once I accidently broke our teacher vase, i told our teacher that it was me that i broke it and i say sorry to her, the teacher didn't punish me, she said honsty is the best policy. But in taiwan is different, in high school i don't have a good relationship with our class teacher, and i was very bad in math, i always fail in quizes and always got "zero" for math but once i got 100 because i got a tutor teaching me math at home and finally i got 100, guess what i got punish by my class teacher saying that i was cheating just because i don't have a good relationship with her, i don't really care what that teacher thinks but i do really work very hard on my math as long as my perant believes in me. Luckly i have a great mom and dad otherwise i don't know what would i be now.

I think student cheating has a lot of reasons comes from teacher and their parents. No one is a cheater, if honesty can bring disaster than how can it be the best policy?
it said " On the other hand, these students are victims in a sense. They have not been properly taught that honesty is a virtue. Since childhood they have seen all around them shining examples of successful dishonesty, including their parents. Politicians cheat. Teachers cheat, too. Merchants cheat. Industrialists cheat. Bankers cheat. Judges and prosecutors also cheat. "

The socity is like this, how could people expect the student to be honest?