>But most farm kids don't go and become veterinary scientists or scientists at all! This statement lives or dies by your definition of 'scientist', but if we'r

>But most farm kids don't go and become veterinary scientists or scientists at all! This statement lives or dies by your definition of 'scientist', but if we're talking about research scientists, it seems trivially obvious that a group constituting a small minority of the population would be quite unlikely to be a majority of 'farm kids'. Having gotten that out of the way,I agree that it read as deliberately derogatory. Grandparent also draws the specious connection between knowledge and something being present in elementary textbooks, which I found more misleading. Clearly the body of knowledge of a society extends infinitely beyond the contents of their elementary textbooks; even the knowledge of the grade-school user of said book does so.