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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.

As a homeschool parent, I struggle with this on a daily (hourly?) basis. My kids ask me all the time why they can't use their calculators (or one of their other zillion electronic devices). I am sticking hard by the old fashioned "because I said so" but ate my words yesterday. My 11th grader is just registered for next year's classes, he's taking a real estate course/licensure exam. He told me he's pretty sure that his clients would appreciate him using a calculator instead of relying on his scratch pad long division. I agree.