I worked for two years in Germany at one of their research institutes as part of an engineering exchange program. Some of my older German colleagues told me they were required to learn the Gettysburg Address in the original English as part of their education. They would have attended school in the 50s and 60s. I don't think it's still part of the standard educational curriculum in Germany.
Especially in northern Germany where Catholic conservatism has little or no play. Bavaria still teaches by having resort to some methods of memorization. My kids, for example, had to write out what the teacher read by way of dictation called, diktat.
Although I am largely unfamiliar with teaching methods in the northern Länder, I am informed that left wing teaching doctrines are wholly in control. Thus, we see the Waldorf School in kindergarten all the way up through the university level utterly corrupted with the doctrines which have leached out of The Frankfurt School.
As you may know THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL was consciously founded upon the desire to install communism in Germany after the 1918 Revolution. Hitler drove it out in 1933 and its apostles found fertile ground to grow weeds in America. The antiwar movement of the 1960s, feminism, the gay rights movement, the antiwar movement, and nihilism in general, are the tools fashioned by the disciples of the Frankfurt school to open Western civilization to communism.
After the war the Communists returned to Europe where they have assumed power in most of the important institutions on the continent, including Germany. The Declaration of Independence notwithstanding, I fear we are only one election away from becoming just as blue as the Europeans.
Hmmm.... Have you been to the United States lately? BTW, I graduated Catholic School eigth grade in 1964 and only learned the Gettysburg Address on my own initiative. (I purchased a phony folded "antiqued" reproduction at a school book fair and memorized it.)