However student 1 (once hired) will get more raises because he knows how to find the pertinent information in a timely manner. ;-)
...until his manager discovers that all he's doing is asking his colleagues, his friends, and random people on the internet to do his work for him, because he never learned to reason independently in school.
Bah. Loaded question, anyway. The whole learn-it-yourself/use-references-dumbass debate pretty much inevitably turns into one giant excluded middle fallacy.
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The hell with paco, vote for Erudil!