This document presents quotes from various teachers' conferences and publications over 300 years expressing concern that students rely too heavily on new technologies for writing and calculation and do not know how to write or calculate without these technologies. The quotes show that with each new technology introduced - from slate to paper to ink pens to fountain pens to ballpoint pens to calculators - teachers worried students would not know how to function without them. However, the document notes that new technologies continue to be adopted and that complaints about each new technology are a "sad commentary" as lives become easier with technological progress.