2. "Students today can’t prepare bark to calculate
their problems. They depend upon their slates
which are more expensive. What will they do
when their slate is dropped and it breaks? They
will be unable to write.
-Teachers Conference, 1703
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3. "Students today depend
upon paper too much.
They don’t know how to
write on slate without
getting chalk dust all
over themselves. They
can’t clean a slate
properly. What will they
do when they run out of
paper?"
-Principal’s
Association, 1815
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4. on ink. They
nd too much
"S tudents depe pen knife to
don’t know how to use a
k will never
rpen a penc il. Pen and in
sha
replace the pencil.”
ociation of
-National Ass
Te a chers, 1907
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5. "Stude
store b nts today de
ought p
how to ink. Th end upon
m a ke ey don
they ru their o ’t know
n out t
write w hey wi wn. When
ords o ll be u
next tr r ciphe nable
ip to th rs unti to
e se t t l l
a sad c
omme ement their
ntary o . This i
n mod s
-The R educat e rn
ural Te ion.
acher,
1929
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6. "Students today depend upon these expensive fountain
pins. They can no longer write with a straight pen and
nib (not to mention sharpening their own quills). We
parents must not allow them to wallow in such luxury to
the detriment of learning how to cope in the real
business world, which is not so extravagant."
-PTA Gazette, 1941
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7. f
h e ruin o
pens will be t ents use
"B all point r country. Stud m
n in ou hrow the
educatio ices and then t d frugality
v
these de tues of thrift an d banks
away. The vir iness an
rded. Bus xpensive
are bei ng disca w such e
will n ever allo ies.”
luxur er, 1950
h
eral Teac
-The Fed
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8. "Students today depend too much on
hand-held calculators."
-Anonymous, 1985
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9. Today we still use pens, pencils and calculators. Now we
have computers which make our lives even easier and I’m
sure that no matter what changes happen in the future
someone will complain about it.
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