The document presents a series of quotes from 1703 to 1985 commenting on the changing technologies used in education. Each successive generation of educators expressed concern that students had become too dependent on the new technologies of the time, such as slate boards, paper, pens, ink, pencils, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, and calculators, and had lost important skills like using a pen knife or making their own ink. The document concludes that while pens, pencils and calculators are still used today alongside computers, new technologies will always provoke commentary about students becoming too dependent on them.