The Giver - Lois Lowry

""But the next morning he had done it again. And again the following week. He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.

For a while," the Chief Elder said, relating the story, "we had a silent Asher! But he learned.""

 

Jesus! No one with a psychology assignation there, huh?