Whatever Happened To 'Being Book Learned'?

A phrase I was raised on was 'book learned',
a phrase that less educated, working class, families
used to distance themselves from, and describe
somebody who spent a significant length of time
with writng and reading whilst the working classes
had little time for people who sat on their asses
and looked like they could afford the time
the working classes could not, being lost in books
that had no obvious, direct, application of knowledge
that would return the book reader to being more engaged
with eraning enough to pay the bills and keep food on the table.

The working classes mistrusted those who were not as attached
to the treadmill of the hand to mouth existence as much they were.
Which was why they mistrusted the aim of collective redistribution
as written about as classical socialist theory, if not with The Gospels,.
They preferred the individual Darwinist struggle, man against nature,
and the covert imitation of the underhand, the powerful, and the mighty.