If I Could Save Time in a Bottle

The Charleston Saturday Gazette has an article detailing the finding and contents of a time capsule. I remember wanting to make one of these when I was a kid. Heck, I am thinking about making one now inspired by this article. What most intrigued me was that there was:

A copy of “Charleston Public Schools Courses of Study” — the curriculum for every grade level. By second grade, students learned to distinguish oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, sweet gum and ash trees. By third grade, they learned the difference between “summer and winter foods” — a distinction that hardly exists today. In high school, all students were required to take at least one year of Greek or two of Latin or German.

The differences in the curriculum are amazing. I wish I could tell the difference between woods and foods. Sometimes I really feel like I was meant to have grown up in the past. I adore everything that is available for me to learn now and all the freedom I have, but something about the simplicity and practicality of the past makes me yearn for that.