ABSTRACT
It is therefore unavoidable that a society such as the Fabian Society should consist largely of members who have in one way or another become highly educated. Such members may be workmen, or salary-earners, or anything else you please. But there will be, until things change a lot, a strong propensity in certain working-class quarters to dub them ' middleclass ', merely because they are educated, whatever their jobs, or their family connections, or their opinions, or their level of income may be. In this sense only is the Fabian Society a 'middle-class' body, and not in the least ashamed of being so, but ashamed only of a social system so unfair and lop-sided as to regard education as the prerogative of a single social class.
