Re: (FWD) Re: Fw: RE: [seul-edu] Comprehensive Student Management

["S. Barret Dolph" <white129@ms7.hinet.net>]

Roger Dingledine wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 07:44:42 -0500
> From: Igor Tamara <j-tamara@uniandes.edu.co>
> Reply-To: ikks@bigfoot.com
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: RE: [seul-edu] Comprehensive Student Management
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> I don't agree with you it's not simply the choice of an O.S., it' s a
> philosophy issue. If you show your students some moral values involved in
> the Free Software

All Free software people are ipso facto more ethical? If you tell this
to teachers they will have a hard time believing you....

, you will be making a more human world

humane or human?


, if your choice is
> another O.S., you MUST tell them about the social impact of this.

I am not against teaching children they must think about the
implications of their actions. But to explain to 11 year olds all the
implications of this movement would take up a good amount of school
time. Even at an evil private school, such as mine, teachers could not
spend a few months on such a narrow tact.
> 
> Are we choosing software simply because we need it? Are we not thinking
> about the world where our children will live? equality, open knowledge,
> cooperation, among others.  Are not those values more important than the
> software itself ?

If being virtuous is rewarding we should show how it is rewarding. (See
the Republic) 
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