iPads break in the hands of kids, taxpayers pay

And I swear, in 50 years, we're writing on Pads instead of Paper. What it's like to sharpen a pencil? What's a pencil? It's one of these stone-age-drawing stick thingies? PFFT, NAH.

Besides this, it should also be noted that it's really not a good idea to expose kids to too much technology. Yes, sure, there are babies with gadgets more advanced than my trusty laptop these days or have their parent-approved e-mail addresses, but let us not forget that 'old-fashioned practices' such as reading a book teach us the virtues of patience, treasuring one's property and the merits of dividing time as few people are able to finish a book in one sitting.

There are arguably settings in which technology can help in the classroom and liven up what may be a boring lesson (I'm thinking of how my lecturer used a digital blackboard to project images, too bad we never got to see it as she was teaching elsewhere then) but otherwise technology does a lot to kill the imagination and in this case teaches the kids that they need not be responsible for things that aren't their own which is a timelessly bad lesson for anyone to learn.

[MENTION=2375]Mazz[/MENTION]; Care to elaborate?