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This paper presents a study of the content of core curricula and selected textbooks for the third and fourth stages of education for the presence of contents related to rural areas and the protection of host ecosystems. Correlations between formal and informal environmental education in rural areas were evaluated. The author made an attempt to answer the research question: how secondary school education prepares students for further education? He described the research process and conclusions, which show, among other things, that the problem of multifunctional rural development, host ecosystems, their importance and their protection has been omitted in the core curricula for lower secondary schools, upper secondary schools, vocational schools as well as in most biology and geography textbooks. There is no mutual relationship between education of young people and adult after-school education in the country. Not only farmers but also other inhabitants of villages and towns should be committed to the protection of host systems and natural environmental values.