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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
it encourages schooling of understanding over product training and upholds
the scientific principle.
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We have set up an < a href = "www.fsfe.org/projects/education/eduteam.en.html" > Education Task Force< / a > 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
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
in schools and universities. Amongst other arguments here are four of the key
benefits:
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< li > Sharing: Using free software allows schools to teach children to share
and cooperate.< / li >
< li > Learning to program: The possibility/freedom to tinker motivates children
to learn more.< / li >
< li > Easy to administer: Free Software is stable, secure and reliable. It
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.
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 = "/freesoftware/education/argumentation.en.html" > Detailed argumentation< / a > < / h3 >
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More reasons for schools to < a href = "/freesoftware/education/argumentation.html" > use Free Software< / a > and to < a href = "/projects/education/argumentation.html" > give precedence to free software at schools< / a > .
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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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< li > < h3 > < a href = "/projects/education/eduteam.html" > Who we are< / a > < / h3 >
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Get involved in the Educational Task Force.< / p > < / li >
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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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