"The Rules of Attribution" Response

In the first years of highschool, I was taught not to take someone else's ideas and put my name on them to hand them in for credit. Plagiarism was taught in every classroom and in the same way; a handout and maybe even a packet in which we as the students were asked to read when we got home. In the essay, "The Rules of Attribution", I strongly agree with Gerhardt in that sometimes teachers do not fully teach the rules effectively so that students can fully understand what Plagiarism is. My teachers assumed that we already knew what it was because every teacher for every subject was supposed to touch on it. Because of this assumption, my teachers rarely discussed it at all, and if they did, they would just whip out the handout and tell us to read it on our own. Yes, people could easily have asked questions the next day, but who really reads a one to two page paper on plagiarism when we think we know what it is in the first place? I believe that teachers and professors shouldn't lecture what Plagiarism is, but give examples of different writings that include plagiarism and show us how to replace "stealing" with creating our own ideas based off of others.