Teachers try their best within formal education, mostly I remember outside of school activities taught, stars by my father in the garden with a telescope, staying at farms with relatives doing daily tasks allotted, history or cultural tours organized through schools during holidays.

Visits to planetarium, touring miniature mine shaft where gold was poured showing processes, events that don't leave ones memory when still under the age of 10.

This type of exposure one has to seek out, which I must say we were most fortunate. We grew up without much of what is here today, problematic in throw away world. As for phones and devices they remain a one room unless required for specific reason.

Nature will win at the end of the day, will we have sufficient knowledge to survive?