smartphones – with full internet access – can by used by pupils to quickly search for facts.
...Because everything on the internet is true...
-—...Because everything on the internet is true...——
As opposed to what, textbooks?
A true education should teach people how to think (grammar and logic) and impart religion. Everything else is non-essential.
Well not so much that. The point is that learning, and the love of learning, like many things is an acquired habit. People who do not know facts have much less incentive to acquire them.