Right but there is so much more information of every kind today than what used to exist at the time of Socrates. Attempting to remember all that information would probably be infeasible.
"The more words, the less the meaning, and how does that profit anyone?" - Ecclesiastes 6:11
"Let's start from the premise that more information, more empowerment, is fundamentally the correct answer" - Eric Schmidt
One of these two quotes is not like the others...
-Albert Einstein
Probably he meant "I never make effort to ...".
Which IMO is foolish - for most people - but probably reflects more that he easily memorised facts without effort (something I was fortunate to experience in my youth and which is now sorely missed).
>Education Is Not the Learning of Facts, But the Training of the Mind To Think
-Also Einstein
Information is only useful insofar as it furthers understanding. It has no value outside that beyond parlor tricks or game shows, especially in the modern internet age.
What good knowing how to think without having the standard inputs; this enables focus on the wider problem rather than interrupting to feed in necessary facts.
E=hf ... but hang on, does that make sense, the trained mind can analyse it. Sure you can look up energies, and Planck and frequencies but having any of those to hand makes your work more efficient. It doesn't just have to make theoretical sense except for v. v. few ... and I say that as an erstwhile theoretician.
Don't get me wrong. Learning facts as a goal is inherently misdirected. But facts are the atoms on which the trained mind works.
Moreover axioms are facts that can't be intuited or derived, they must be learnt of existing systems or defined of new ones.
I think the position espoused in those quotes is hyperbolic.
(poking fun, but only a bit)
Now try reciting the Library of Congress after one hearing. Or Wikipedia. That's a whole nother level of problem.
It's still unclear to me which parts of the Internet provide a good ratio.