Why doesn’t modern education encourage children to memorise poems anymore?

(I have a theory, but you go first...)

1. Children are built for memorisation. Seems odd not to exploit that.
2. Learning vast amounts of poetry is very common across human cultures. (My working class, left school at year 8 grandma knew heaps and was not unusual.

3. To learn a poem is an act of trust. A parent, teacher, or religious leader has to say, “learn this. Trust me. It will be worth it.”
4. You also have to believe in the religion (Eg Psalms) or the national identity (The Iliad, Man from Snowy River) that those poems support.

5. Therefore a low-trust and low confidence in religious and/or ethnic identity society won’t teach its children poems. The moment a poem was chosen for memorisation the cry would go up, “Why *this* one!? Who is being privileged here?”

Something like that, anyway.