Throughout much of history, agriculture was ingrained in and around the way a person was educated. From peasant to aristocrat, an understanding of how to best make the land work to bring forth food and profit was essential to whatever level of successone sought to attain. Reading, writing and arithmetic were taught as a means to enhance business skills, but it was common knowledge that most of the businesses those skills would serve would be agriculture-based. Those who best learned and applied theprinciples of agronomy, genetics and irrigation were often those esteemed highest by their contemporaries.
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