Wiki Instead of Fact
A student who says facts can always be looked up tries to look up an answer and gets lost.
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-12-07-wiki-instead-of-fact/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
A (holding a phone): "Why do I need to learn facts when I can just Google and Wikipedia everything?"
B: "Good question. Can you Google the relevant psychological literature and Wikipedia some historical comparisons?"
[Pause]
A: "It just says 'fact' comes from Latin and apparently there's something called a Werner Herzog."
B: "I think we have our answer."