Teachers Need an Open Source Education

palegray.net writes "Teachers are sorely in need of an education in what open source software is, what it isn't, and how it can benefit their students. A recent news story at the Reg discussed the case of a Texas teacher who accused those distributing Linux to students of committing criminal acts. A HeliOS blog entry exposes a 'higher education' culture of apathy, lies, and fear of open source software. Things have got to improve, and that improvement needs to start with misguided teachers getting their facts straight."

Comments

Re:What?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Call me at home and you're likely to discover your phone number has been mistaken for a free sex number.

Um, tell me more about these 'free sex numbers'. I'd, er, also like to give these out instead of my home number..

Re:Lack of knowledge not an excuse

[anothy]

see, that's kinda the reaction i was going for. i wish i'd gone to your school; my administration mostly just squirmed and looked at me uncomfortably. ;-)