Steve Jobs, in the Smithsonian Oral and Video Histories collection:
As you’ve pointed out I’ve helped with more computers in more schools than anybody else in the world and I absolutely convinced that is by no means the most important thing. The most important thing is a person. A person who incites your curiosity and feeds your curiosity; and machines cannot do that in the same way that people can. The elements of discovery are all around you. You don’t need a computer. Here - why does that fall? You know why? Nobody in the entire world knows why that falls. We can describe it pretty accurately but no one knows why. I don’t need a computer to get a kid interested in that, to spend a week playing with gravity and trying to understand that and come up with reasons why.
As computers take a more central role in the classroom, teachers have to be better and more engaging to compete with the technology. I sure hope schools remember this, and keep their focus on hiring good teachers, not buying the latest technology.