"Side by side with this went the writing of Latin, gradually working up to the production of exercises in which the graces of rhetorical ornament and the rigorous clarity of logical argument were displayed. If they were not, it was not for want of effort on the master's part, constantly reinforced by the use of the rod, for beating was an inseparable part of all medieval education, and the constant application of the birch for all offences however trivial was axiomatic."
H. S. Bennett, Six Medieval Men & Women, "Thomas Hoccleve" (1955).
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