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<title>Free Software in the Education - FSFE</title>
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<p id="category"><a href="/projects/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 universities as
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it encourages schooling of understanding over product training and upholds
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the scientific principle.
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We have set up an Education Task Force to focus on these efforts. It acts as
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a hub and works on monitoring the European situation. We participate in Free
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Software events and assist other initiatives in making the change possible.
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The team currently develops a guide how to successfully deploy Free Software
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in schools and universities. Amongst other arguments here are four of the key
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benefits:
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<li>Sharing: Using free software allows schools to teach children to share
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and cooperate.</li>
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<li>Learning to program: The possibility/freedom to tinker motivates children
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to learn more.</li>
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<li>Easy to administer: Free Software is stable, secure and reliable. It
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offers unrestricted access to the source code, thus allowing to modify or
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adapt it to the schools' needs.</li>
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<li>Licenses: With Free Software, teachers can give a copy to each student.
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There is no risk to mislead any child to use an illegal copy.</li>
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<h2 id="subpages">Navigation</h2>
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<h3><a href="http://wiki.fsfe.org/Reasons_for_schools_to_use_Free_Software">Detailed argumentation</a></h3>
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More reasons for schools to use Free Software.
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<h3><a href="http://mail.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
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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> also maintains a info page on Free Software in education.
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