This lack of shaming carries into adult life as well. Used to be a time when being on welfare was considered shameful and something to get off of as quick as possible so that your family and neighbors hopefully didn't find out about it. Nowadays, they have done away with food stamps and hand out shiny new "ATM" type cards and recipients of those are pleased as punch to present them at the supermarket to get their snack foods and frozen TV dinners.
When I was going to school, they had already done away with dunce caps (see below) but the teachers still had the ability to humiliate underperforming students. One teacher from those days had a circle drawn on the floor in chalk in the front of the classroom near his desk. Any student misbehaving or otherwise in need of some "motivation" had his/her desk moved into that "circle of shame". And there you stayed until another student misbehaved and took your place. I had my desk moved there once for daydreaming in class and not realizing the teacher had called upon me to answer a question during a lecture. I made sure it was the one and only time I ever had to sit in that circle, isolated from the rest of the classroom. Not many other students in the class were up there more than once either. By the end of that school year, this teacher had one of the most attentive and well-behaved classes in the school.
