Not only that, students have to memorise the whole history texts, thereby indicating that rote-learning has greater priority than absorbing and understanding material.
We know many non-human entities, plenty of which are quite intelligent, and many of which can apprehend, memorise, compare and even approximately add numerical quantities.
Because knocking relies on the confidence that the player will not have the lowest score, a skilled player may memorise which suits the other players are discarding.