Question for the young'uns - calculators in school?

[The Painter]

I have no problem with kids using calculators. It's just new technology. Christ, a pencil was new technology at one point in time. It releases the kids from the drudgery of cranking out the numbers, and frees their minds to the higher aspects of mathematics By punching numbers into a computer, and not doing the paperwork, a lot of time is saved. Calculations that would have taken years by hand, take minutes or seconds now. New boundaries are open, it's a brave new world..