Mehmed Ali punished his own trained student to appease the school director

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Mehmed Ali did not like this answer and said that the student in question should be given three hundred lashes and then expelled from school. He explained this harsh treatment by saying that Rifā’a Bey had trained many people with the rank of captain; in effect, that it was more profitable to appease him than be concerned about the money spent on the student. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 921