 The prime reason, almost the only reason, was that I heard that the young men there, that is the students, were quieter in their study and were kept under the reign of a more orderly discipline. How many teachers today can understand the attraction of that job offer? We're not talking here just about whispering and passing notes in the back of the classroom. Augustine tells us that Carthage, the students, are not ashamed to break into a class and looking like madmen to disrupt the order that a teacher has established for the good of his students. They do all kinds of harmful things, remarkable for their stupidity and warranting punishment by law. And worst of all, they always got away with it. Even so confesses the saint to God, you, my hope and my portion in the land of the living, spurred me on for the health of my soul to change the land where I lived, to get myself out of Carthage and you set the snare to allure me to Rome.