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<title>Free Software in the Education - FSFE</title>
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<p id="category"><a href="/work.html">Our work</a></p>
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<h1>Free Software in Education</h1>
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We actively promote the use of Free Software in schools and
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universities as it encourages schooling of understanding over
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product training and upholds the scientific principle.
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We have set up an <a
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href="/activities/education/eduteam.en.html">Education Task
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Force</a> to focus on these efforts. It acts as a hub and works on
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monitoring the European situation. We participate in Free Software
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events and assist other initiatives in making the change possible.
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The team currently develops a guide how to successfully deploy
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Free Software in schools and universities. Amongst other
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arguments here are four of the key benefits:
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<strong>Sharing:</strong> Using free software allows schools to
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teach children to share and cooperate.
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<strong>Learning to program:</strong> The possibility/freedom to
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tinker motivates children to learn more.
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<strong>Easy to administer:</strong> Free Software is stable,
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secure and reliable. It offers unrestricted access to the source
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code, thus allowing to modify or adapt it to the schools'
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needs.
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<strong>Licenses:</strong> With Free Software, teachers can give
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a copy to each student. There is no risk to mislead any child
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to use an illegal copy.
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2014-12-21 18:40:25 +00:00
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<fetch-news /><h2 id="subpages">Navigation</h2>
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<h3><a href="/freesoftware/education/argumentation.en.html">Detailed argumentation</a></h3>
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More reasons for schools to <a
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href="/freesoftware/education/argumentation.html">use Free
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Software</a> and to <a
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href="/activities/education/argumentation.html">give precedence to
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free software at schools</a>. <!--Paragraph to add when these section will be completed <a
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href="http://fsfe.org/activities/education/leaflet-edu-reasonsforstudents.html">
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Reasons for students to adopt Free Software</a> and <a
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href="http://fsfe.org/activities/education/leaflet-edu-reasonsforparents.html">for
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parents to prefer Free Software for the education of their children</a>.-->
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<h3><a href="http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-eu">Education mailing list</a></h3>
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Join the discussion about Free Software in education.
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<h3><a href="/activities/education/eduteam.html">Who we are</a></h3>
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Get involved in the Educational Task Force.
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<h3><a href="http://www.gnu.org/education">GNU's education page</a></h3>
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The <a href="/about/basics/gnuproject.html">GNU project</a>
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also maintains a info page on Free Software in education.
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