are Upgrades always better?

In "the Rise of the Reading public" Elizabeth Eisentein Expreese's how the world is becoming lazy. How valuable lessons on life are trying to be learned from a simple reading. I believe printers and work shops help, because if you ever want to kno something you could always go look it up, But most lesson are best learn from expierences or someone with expierence. A print out cant express the seriousness of something like slavery. it can only give an idea of what the world was like. A relative or somebody who actually has old stories or knows much on that subject, will teach you more than an article ever could. Also this causes the absence of an important person in the childrens life. Grandparents have wisdom about your ancestors that a book or print out couldn't. That elderly person would be there for advise if neccesary.