So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can’t be controlled.

Greenberg likens educational technology to the Trojan Horse: an attractive gift that conceals disruptive forces. The image suggests that once devices, networks, and digital platforms enter schools, they bring along unintended consequences—distraction, surveillance, commercialization, or shifts in authority from teachers and communities to software and external institutions. The claim that it “can’t be controlled” implies not merely classroom management problems but systemic loss of control: technologies evolve rapidly, invite constant connectivity, and create dependencies that outpace policy. The quote functions as a warning about technological determinism in education—adoption tends to reshape schooling on technology’s terms rather than educators’ intentions.