This document presents a recurring theme over two centuries where new technologies in education are criticized for making students too dependent or replacing important basic skills. Quotes from 1703 to 1950 criticize slates, paper, ink, pens, fountain pens, ballpoint pens and calculators for replacing traditional tools like bark, slate, sharpening pencils and making ink. The final quote from 1985 criticizes calculators and a concluding statement notes we still use older tools but now computers which will likely face similar criticisms of enabling dependence.