“what’s wrong with the world” 1910

 ...in his prophetic 1910 book of that title, he lists “public education” as one of the main culprits, along with Big Government, Big Business, and Feminism. 
http://humanumreview.com/articles/on-chesterton

The one thing that is never taught by any chance in the atmosphere of public schools is this: that there is a whole truth of things, and that in knowing it and speaking it we are happy.—G.K. Chesterton, "The Boy," All Things Considered.