[dalke]

It's even more odd juxtaposed with the "a blue-collar type."

I think it's reasonable to say that this introduction suggests a middle class snobbishness towards the lower class. The worry is that by not teaching the kids correctly, the kids will end up in the lower class.

On the other side, it's also teaching people that they shouldn't want to be in the upper class, because then they would lose this important sense of money.