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I dunno. What good exactly did memorizing texts and dialogues do? The practice seems to survive these days in generally bad contexts - madrassas where the main curriculum is memorizing the Koran and the hadiths, for example. (And in general, memorization seems to go hand in hand with fanaticism.)
Or the Chinese civil service exam that consisted of reciting (IIRC) the Book of Songs, the Confucian Analects, and a few other things, from memory.
Yeah, basically the "5 classics" and whatever else they felt was important at the time. Not necessarily reciting, though. Often it was being locked in a box for an extended period, expected to transcribe whole passages perfectly from memory.
ETA: Wikipedia link