I just took that quote from www.linuxtoday.com, but after reading the entire article I like this quote better.  

"There's also a (wrong) perception that schools have to give children what they'll find in the workplace. Children can easily adapt from one platform to another. Also by the time they get out of school it'll all have changed anyway. If my school had that idea then they would have trained me at twelve to be expert on Word Perfect 4.1 for DOS. There's no need to worry about it. Trust in kids' adaptability."

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"The main idea was to provide a Linux account for 80 pupils. We set this up on an otherwise obsolete P166 computer which lives on the school's internal network. We have given each pupil a personal web page, MySQL database, telnet access, email with Pine and network chat with 'talk'. The purpose is to teach HTML and publishing web pages, PHP and MySQL, remote access with telnet, Unix commands, simple Telnet based email, email etiquette and network chat. The chat part is just for fun, but we use that to show that a single machine can be accessed remotely and support many users at the same time."

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> Warren, I'm sure you saw this, but just incase:
> http://www.olinux.com.br/artigos/393/1.html
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> "Unfamiliarity, compatibility and the time/effort needed are the main obstacles. Linux is a 'rawer' computing experience that requires learning. The rewards are there, of course. Compability with Microsoft Word is a problem because that program's everywhere. In so many schools they're just trying to keep what they've got working and there's no time or resources for trying out something new."
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