It isn't easy to make a living from a farm and takes a great deal of knowledge and hard work to make it successful -- lessons a person who draws a salary and benefits often never learn. Our current professors in their Ivy covered ivory towers like to scorn George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Visit Mt. Vernon, or Monticello, sometime and look at all they had to know to keep their plantations successful and to feed all of the people who were dependent upon them.
I have. I did.
I once overheard a college professor say that the hardest part of his job was “emptying the kids minds of the foolishness they had been taught by their parents”.
Those were his exact words.
I quickly figured out why higher education led to a lack of common sense and problem solving.
Those with degrees in the hard sciences seem to work out better.
The ones with the useless “liberal arts” degrees tend to be worthless.
There are exceptions to each observation, but not many.