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I think it's more than possible, it's just a fact these days. Being able to know how to search efficiently is probably the most important "life skill" people living in modern societies need to have. I remember back when I was in grade school, the standard response to "why can't I use a calculator" was "what if you need to solve a problem like this some day and you don't have a calculator."

It made a certain amount of sense back then. Nobody carried a calculator with them everywhere, feature phones hadn't yet been invented (let alone smartphones), and the Internet wasn't a "thing" that the average person had any clue about.

Today though, it's a ludicrous response.

I disagree. Teacher's responses are at an attempt to get at the level of a grade school student who would not understand practical answers, like developing logic, critical thinking, methodical problem solving, grasping abstract concepts, understanding how numbers interact and the "why"/, etc., etc., etc.

You can have the most advanced calculator in the world, but if you don't understand what operations you are supposed to be performing, its useless. A simple anecdote is how many people I know who cannot figure simple things like applying store discounts. They have trouble on a calculator, I can ballpark it in my head within a few cents. I'm not a genius, but actually learning the concepts in my head helped.