Someone Has Blundered

Looking at an old book of 1922 poetry of my grandparent's I read the inscription 'awarded for good conduct'.A schoolchild today would probably consider being given a 500 page book of Tennyson's poems punishment for bad conduct. We were told as children that gran had to be carried to school piggy back because she was that poor she did not have any shoes.Even into her 80's she could recite pages of poetry by heart so she had obviously benefited from her gift.Today's children are not made of such stuff I fear.They may have ipads and God knows what else but I know who is truly impovershed and it wasn't my gran.Someone indeed has blundered.