Why is the american education system all about memorizing? its getting moronic

Acontainer hold 4 gallons of lemonade.a large lemonade contains 16 ounces. how many large lemonades could the restaruant sell before they run out of lemonade?

1. saved aronnax from drowning "an incident" 2. speed of the nautilus man-of-war 3. next to captain nemo conseil 4. electricity vigo bay 5. "a coral tomb" 20,000 leagues 6. the nautilus runs aground nemo's "thunderbolt" 7. episodes are connected by aronnax's quarters 8. captain nemo's "bank" cause 9. distance aronnax traveled on the nautilus "a fine death for a sailor" 10. captain nemo sinks for revenge 50 miles per hour

How did rick respond to this conflict