... by miseducation

The waste inherent in capitalism was stressed by the speaker. As an example of the waste and maldistribution of man power, he showed how in his suburb there were twelve grocers, each with, on the average, three assistants, making in all forty-odd, plus all those in the wholesale trade and distribution behind them. All these to serve one suburb with groceries, while only twelve teachers were expected to educate the children of primary school age in that suburb. Each teacher therefore had to teach two or three times us many children as a proper education required, and as a result, most of the children left school glad to get away from "education" as they knew it, and ready to absorb all the misinformation supplied by our daily press.