The Sense of Humor in the Classroom

As a young student, Augustine reveals, he was indeed praised for his enthusiastic recitations of passages from classical literature. Citing a passage from the Latin playwright Terrence, also a North African incidentally, and emphasizes that students are compelled to learn prurient literature and whipped, if they don't. When he was a child, salacious passages were ones that he took, quote, with pleasure and delight, wretch that I was. For this reason I was said to be a boy of high promise, close quote.