This document presents a series of quotes from 1703 to 1985 commenting on students' dependence on new technologies for writing, calculating, and learning. Each successive generation of teachers expressed concern that students had become too reliant on the newest technologies like slates, paper, pens, ink, pencils, calculators, and computers, and lacked the skills and self-sufficiency of prior generations. However, the concluding paragraph notes that while the technologies change, people will always find something new to complain about.

1. Technology and Education

4. "Students depend too much on ink. They don’t know how to use a pen knife to sharpen a pencil. Pen and ink will never replace the pencil." -National Association of Teachers, 1907