In "Just Lather, That's All," the "lesson" refers to the capture and murder of four rebels by the captain and his men. The captain then ordered everyone in the town to go to the school to see the hanging bodies of these rebels.
The barber saw this as a brutal display of the captain's capability for violence. In fact, the barber refers to it as "imaginative" because it of the depravity involved: the rebels were stripped naked, and the captain allowed his men to use certain parts of their bodies for "target practice."
In contrast, Captain Torres looks back on this "lesson" with an apparent fondness and even refers to it as a "fine show." For him, killing the rebels in this way is all part of the lesson because it is designed to act as a deterrent against working with the revolutionaries.
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