How many people had parents involved in farming? How many people had grandparents involved in farming? Many, many people, isn’t it?
Connected to the way of life in farming, the phrase “Don’t eat your seed corn,” has a distinct meaning. If you eat that seed now, you have nothing to plant for the coming year. We will have nothing to plant for the future.
In the Agrarian Society, seed corn is what you put aside for the coming year to have crops in the future. Public Schools are the “seed corn” of the Information Age. It is from the Public Schools that we grow our future. And if we skimp on our future “seed corn” or don’t preserve it as our number one priority, we sacrifice our future for the comfort of today.
It has taken us many, many years to raise the bar of education consistently pushing it up, year by year. If we sacrifice our Public Schools today, we undo in only a couple of years what it has taken us decades to build up.
It’s important, even today, that we heed the words of wisdom in that we “don’t eat our seed corn.”
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