That is also going to be part of the new millennium. We will have to be very creative about where we find teachers. That will not be the case. In fact, the Homestead Act itself set aside two townships out of 36 for the support of education. In a way, that might be the most creative federal program for education that we have ever had other than the college support we gave the returning service people after the second world war.
Farmers are more mechanized.
Family size is smaller because we do not need as many people to work that land and make it a productive unit. But if you go back to when there were many family farms and the families were fairly good size, there was, as a birthright almost to many of the children, access to a college education. Maybe only one or two were going to inherit the land and the operation of the farm. The rest were given, as a birthright, access to a college education. They could remain home or close to home.