Industrialized agriculture has robbed us of the best training school for young people, the family farm.
For me, it was a morning paper route, getting up at 4 or 4:30 every morning, rain, snow, etc. from grammar school until high school. Collecting from my customers, paying my bill to the paper, having spending money for my expenses, occasionally helping my Mom with groceries, etc.
Family farming is a much more comprehensive education, though!
If parents would make their kids spend one hour playing Sim City and one hour playing Farm Sim for each hour spent playing Angry Birds or Zombie Blaster, that alone would be a bit of education.
If the schools scheduled one Saturday a month for pulling kudzu or patching potholes or cleaning grafitti off of buildings & street signs, the kids might “learn a thing or two”...