Egyptian educators modeled schooling explicitly on military drilling to build national power.

Evidence

The language suggests immediately an extension of the techniques originally introduced in the military. And it was towards the very possibility of the country’s military and political strength that the language led back. The abilities formed by the endless drilling and exercise of education enabled people to harmonise and associate with one another, in order to create a community. By developing this capacity to the fullest extent, the community gained its strength and acquired the ability to dominate others. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 304