When Echani children began military training at age seven, they would enter the education system. The education system for Echani was designed to encourage discipline and physical toughness and to emphasize the importance of the Echani Nation. Echani lived in communal messes and, according to law, the children were fed "just the right amount for them never to become sluggish through being too full, while also giving them a taste of what it is not to have enough." Besides physical and weapons training, children studied reading, writing, music and dancing. Special punishments were imposed if the children failed to answer questions sufficiently 'laconically'.