When you reach the point in your education where you are there because you want to be there and you are paying to be taught something, then there's no reason you shouldn't have open book tests--after all, if you choose not to know the stuff cold, that's your own problem. And if you don't know the basics by then, it won't do any good to have the book open anyway.
That's what the honors chemistry course was like. You weren't there unless you wanted to be there and if you didn't know the basics you wouldn't have been there to start with! LOL
