First let me assure you that I am NOT a youngster. I had a run-in with an old geezer (probably the same age as me, but stuck in the "olden days" ) the other day at the local diner about this same thing. He was sitting there in his bib overalls (or overhauls as he called them) griping about kids using computers in schools. Going on and on about how when he was young they had to learn to do everything "by hand". He was sure that the kids now days are much stupider than he was because the old fashioned ways were best. Finally, having had enough, I spoke up and said, " If you have grandkids, you better HOPE and PRAY that they learn how to use computers and have them available to learn on, because if they don't, and you encourage them to do things the old fashioned way, they have no chance of surviving in the world when they are grown. Just because your grandparents used horses to plow with, doesn't mean the guys who use the fancy new air-conditioned, computerized tractors aren't farmers. And oh, by the way, because of technology, they work smarter and produce more than the guys with the horse - pulled plows did". Just because things have progressed from what we grew up with, doesn't mean the old way was better. It's good to have the old knowledge, but, it's good to keep learning new things too. Just my opinion, of course.