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<title>About - FSFE Education</title>
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<a id="moreinfo" href="/activities/education/eduteam.html">Education Task Force</a>
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<h1>Reasons to prefer Free Software for your child's education</h1>
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When you send your child to school, you expect that he/she comes back
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with a certain knowledge basis, a certain social behavior. Knowledge is
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universal. So is Free Software. Social behavior implicates values and
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philosophy. So does Free Software. By implementing Free Software in schools,
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we could reach a more effective educative system.</p>
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<h2>Sharing</h2>
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<p>Using Free Software allows your child to learn to share and cooperate
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and thus join a whole community that shares knowledge.
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<h2>Independence</h2>
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<p>Teaching a child to rely on proprietary software makes him dependent on
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something s/he'll have to pay for. Teaching your child to rely on Free Software
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allows him/her to continue using this software in his/her adult life while
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helping others by sharing it. </p>
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<h2>Learning to program</h2>
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The possibility to tinker motivates children to learn more. Free Software
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allows them to learn about computers at any depth.
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<h2>Learning to use software</h2>
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Free Software gives children the possibility to learn how software works and thus
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helps them to understand the concepts underlying a whole category or type of software.
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They are then able to adapt to any environment, a key skill nowadays.
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<h2>Learning in native language</h2>
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<p>Free Software applications are being translated into almost any language.
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Thus, your child can learn and focus on the actual subject without any language or
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cultural barriers.
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<h2>Equality at home</h2>
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With Free Software, teachers can give a copy of a program to each child,
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without risking to mislead him/her to use an illegal copy. Thus, you are not put
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in a position to make a financial decision and children of families with
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less financial resources can learn with the same tools as every other child.
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<h2>Intelligent use of the school's money</h2>
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Without licence fees, the school saves money and can use it to train
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the teachers or for technical support to disburden the teachers, and
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thereby improve the quality of teaching.
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<h2>Intelligent savings on hardware</h2>
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Free Software can be used with minimal hardware requirements on almost any
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hardware. Using and teaching Free Software also allows the school to
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save money on the purchases of computers and updates, and thereby reinvest it rather on grey matter.
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<h2>Stability and Reliability</h2>
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<p>Free Software is stable, secure and reliable. Security and other updates can
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be implemented in a minute. Its maintenance is automated and thus time-saving.</p>
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<h2>Security</h2>
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<p>Free Software is impervious to current viruses.</p>
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<address>
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Free Software Foundation Europe<br/>
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Schönhauser Allee 6/7, 10119 Berlin, Germany<br/>
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E-Mail: edu-team@lists.fsfe.org<br/>
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Phone: +49-30-27595290<br />
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http://fsfe.org/activities/education<br/>
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</address>
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<timestamp>$Date: 2010-07-17 07:20:49 +0200 (Sat, 17 Jul 2010) $ $Author: maelle $</timestamp>
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