This document presents a series of quotes from 1703 to 1985 that criticize students' dependence on new technologies for writing and calculation. Each successive generation of educators complained that students relied too heavily on the latest devices like slates, paper, pens, ink, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, and calculators, rather than learning traditional methods. The concluding paragraph notes that while pens, pencils and calculators are still used today, computers now further facilitate our lives, and new technologies will likely continue to be criticized.