Step 1: Learn the basic skills
Step 2: Learn the tools to use the basic skills in the most efficient way possible

Technology has come up with some absolutely brilliant tools. Like HNSB pointed out, without these tools people like Stephen Hawking could have never expressed their genius.

Things start getting problematic when you go to Step 2 without doing Step 1 first. You “learn” something without any kind of thought process being involved. Unless you’re naturally inclined to want to figure out how things work, you’ll just end up being a button pusher.

There will always be brilliant people that will just end up knowing just about everything there is to know and there will always be people that don’t know anything. This will never change.

But I believe that the majority of people are in between, and 2 things can happen:

1- They can easily be taught how things really work and how to think for themselves to get things done.
2- They can easily be taught how to press a bunch of buttons to get what they want done.

Both ways work, the end result will be the same. Which one do you prefer ?