Augustine illuminates the fact that a classical education alone is not enough for a person to lead a fulfilling life outside of the material world. “Behavior does not change when one leaves behind domestic guardians and schoolmasters, nuts and balls and sparrows, to be succeeded by prefects and kings, gold, estates, and slaves, as one advances to later stages in life,” (Augustine 22). Augustine listed his sins as a schoolboy, and then he went on to say that the things he was learning in school were solely for the success that comes later on in life; this success he is speaking of is material. He is alluding to the lack of God and moral compass in his life as a young boy, and how the purpose of the classical education consequently led him in a greedy sinful direction up until his conversion. “Certainly the knowledge of letters is not as deep-seated in the consciousness as the imprint of the moral conscience, that he is doing to another what he would not wish done to himself