A Thought From Laura Ingalls-Wilder 1916

"We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other persons." Laura Ingalls-Wilder 1916

If this thought that Laura Ingalls-Wilder wrote back in 1916, was true back then, I wonder how sad she would deem our society today, as far as not being, or thinking in a self sufficient manner.