Farmers have historically played with the fears of mankind and have lobbying power that rivals big tobacco in many countries.
"More moneyz for the farmers or everyone will starve to death."
They also tend to use somewhat stereotypical stuff depicting themselves as heroes that feed the homeland which just rubs me the wrong way.
Add the "leave this farmland empty and make more money than actually farming on it" government handout abuse (+ all sorts of economic meddling that makes very little sense) and you pretty much get the mixture of why I don't grant farmers a high status by default.
Big industry farming is also fairly disgusting. I'm not really an animal rights type of guy and more of the "whatever humans eat animals such is life" kind of school but what is happening in industry farming makes me pretty sick.
[I'm obviously aggregating over all farmers here but by and large I wouldn't start out assuming a farmer was noble]
Edit: that's obviously way off topic. My answer to the OP would be...teach kids to enjoy learning and exploring and not some specific craft. The rest will follow automatically.
Programming as a craft works well because it tends to force you to learn and explore as a side effect (same for anything scientific really)
"More moneyz for the farmers or everyone will starve to death."
They also tend to use somewhat stereotypical stuff depicting themselves as heroes that feed the homeland which just rubs me the wrong way.
Add the "leave this farmland empty and make more money than actually farming on it" government handout abuse (+ all sorts of economic meddling that makes very little sense) and you pretty much get the mixture of why I don't grant farmers a high status by default.
Big industry farming is also fairly disgusting. I'm not really an animal rights type of guy and more of the "whatever humans eat animals such is life" kind of school but what is happening in industry farming makes me pretty sick.
[I'm obviously aggregating over all farmers here but by and large I wouldn't start out assuming a farmer was noble]
Edit: that's obviously way off topic. My answer to the OP would be...teach kids to enjoy learning and exploring and not some specific craft. The rest will follow automatically.
Programming as a craft works well because it tends to force you to learn and explore as a side effect (same for anything scientific really)