I'm curious because of a subject that came up when I was speaking with my partner. I grew up on a farm, and went to school in a very rural area. The tri-county area had a population of 60,000. My elementary school was located in a small hamlet, and each school I went to was largely populated with kids from farms or very small towns/villages. My partner grew up in a much larger town not far from a city of about 800-900,000 people (at the time he was a child).

It came up that he had no idea that cows had 'four stomachs' (ruminant digestive system) and didn't know that the regurgitated food (cud) in order to digest it. So we had a long conversation where I was teaching him about cattle/farm animals -- information I learned not only at home, but also in most of my science classes. Apparently he had never learned any of this in school. He can't really remember specifically what his biology classes focused on but I know in my high school it was mostly North American farm animals.

This kind of blew my mind, and I realized that most people from cities that I've spoken to about farming have very little knowledge of it, whereas my schooling had a large emphasis on agricultural subjects.

So I have to know -- what did kids that went to school in the city or large towns learn differently than kids from rural areas if anything? What were the science classes like? Or if there might be something else that could have been largely different in terms of education (other than funding. I know my schools were incredibly underfunded). Did we miss out on subjects because it was so focused on agriculture?