"How do they keep the li..."

He cuts himself off from saying 'little shits'

"...more disorderly students in line?  Or do they have to expel a lot of them?"

Actually, if the would-be-arrogant wizards just get themselves expelled maybe that takes care of it?  It would certainly be better than having them whip the other kids and get even more prideful.  This Andoran wizard hasn't seemed too bad, at least so far.

Probably you don't need to hit the actually worthwhile kids at all and it's only because Cheliax raises everyone so Evil that they need so much discipline.

"I can't speak to what Infernal Chelish wizarding schools were like, but I expect we had less disorderly behavior to begin with. I don't actually recall any issues with disruptiveness in the classroom — when I try to call to mind specific examples of misbehavior, I come up with things such as staying in the practice halls after hours or accidentally damaging equipment or supplies, which were typically punished on a first offense with loss of practice-hall privileges and fines respectively. I expect the main factor there is that everyone who enrolls at Almas University is freely choosing to be there, and most of them worked hard to be admitted — the sort of student who would want to disrupt the classroom would generally not seek admission in the first place. I expect that the age of the students is also relevant; even the youngest students there were still older than the youngest students in a typical local Chelish school, or even the youngest students at a Chelish wizarding 'prep school'. 

My understanding is also that students at Andoren wizarding institutions are typically punished for a much narrower range of behavior than would be typical in Cheliax. I've heard that it was standard in Cheliax to punish the worst performer on a major assignment, even if their performance would have been individually satisfactory, which seems... pointless, if one isn't actively aiming to be Evil? If a student is underperforming, their grades will reflect that, but if every student performs well on an assignment, that's a desirable outcome, there's no benefit to punishing someone who successfully... demonstrated a satisfactory Silent Image, of an acceptable duration because their classmates happened to maintain concentration for slightly longer... or whatever it was that students were punished for in practice."

"And the fines don't, uh, send them into abusive indentures because they can't pay?"

Well, that's something to avoid thinking about.  He thinks 'dramatically repented of serving Baphomet' will go over a lot better than... not thinking of it.

"I have never heard of that happening and would expect to have heard of it if it had. I don't know how specifically they prevent it, beyond not giving students access to expensive equipment until they have proven they are sufficiently careful not to break it, but I would guess that it includes some combination of maximum fines and alternative repayment structures for students who cannot pay them."

"Even if they did indenture people over it Andoran's got way more rules about indentures, there's all kinds of things that're legal for people to do to their indentured servants in Cheliax that'd be crimes in Andoran. I mean, I believe it just doesn't come up for people breaking things at wizard school, but even if it did, it wouldn't be like Cheliax."

He doesn't really trust they could really stop people from abusing their indentures... well maiming and death are obvious enough to check for, and at least that much would be an improvement over Cheliax and the fate he's sent a few people to.

"Hmm... that's good."

In between his nervous stuttering earlier and the distraction of trying not to think about an issue he doesn't really feel like talking.  If he was thinking about the issue carefully, he would quickly realize it is really unlikely Sinashakti is reading his thoughts, but not thinking of something in fact has rather obvious and large drawbacks.

He can sense weakness, and he's got a gut feeling what this weakness is about.  Best case scenario, they kill this wizard and take his share of the loot, worst case, at least he gets a chance to mess with an arrogant wizard trying to suck up and pretend like he is really pathetically Good deep down inside.

"Yeah Chelish indentures are terrible.  I bet most Andoran people think that people that abuse indentures and trick people into bad indentures and such are like, only a half step up from slavers."

He suppresses the leer on his face and glee in his voice and does his best to seem serious and solemn about it.  Borderline slavery, such a serious issue.