FSF Blogs: The need for free software education now

Making the choice to use free software in the classroom helps us
create learning environments that foreground questions of value. This
can be illustrated by a passage in Confucius's "Analects" where the
skilled mechanic is illustrated as sharpening their tools before
they are able to do their work well. In the 21st century, and in the
context of digital learning environments, to sharpen tools would mean
to know not just "how" the tool works but "what" the tool means with
respect to the place of the human in the world. This will be explored
by considering the five Ws: what free software education is, who it is
for, when and where it takes place, and why our active role as digital
makers, not just passive users, is central to the meaning of free
software education.

Source: Planet GNU