>>813976I don't see the benefit. The whole point of farming and to a lesser extent agriculture is that you can get mad gains by having a machine do most of the work. At a push, having people do like 1 month's work experience (or maybe even a half day's work experience every week for a year) so they've got some awareness of it would do the job.
On the other hand, if it was a practical apprenticeship for anything you wanted, e.g. while doing a politics degree your university will force you to make that webcomic you've been telling yourself you'd do for the last 5 years, or write short stories, or something like that, I would be all for it. Superficially this cuts directly against the grain of the suggestion (instead of steel, I want people to make art!?) but both are, frankly, productivity in a way that no think-tank policy-based-evidence slop pdf ever will be. They cultivate the underlying skill of actually finishing your projects.