Strepsiades Timeline and Summary

Strepsiades is in heaps of debt because of his son's fondness for racing. Instead of figuring out a way to pay the debts back, he decides he's going to try to argue his way out of them.
To do that, Strepsiades decides that his son needs to go to the local Thinkery to learn the kind of logic that would achieve such ends. However, his son is selfish and sleepy, and he refuses.
As a result, Strepsiades has to enroll himself. However, his student career is pretty disastrous and short-lived. Next time, he makes Pheidippides go in his place.
Pheidippides is a better student than his dad and soon knows all the logic he needs to get whatever he wants.
Strepsiades is thrilled with the education his son gets, until Pheidippides starts beating him and then using his newfound arguing skills to justify the beatings. Only then does Strepsiades see that his whole project was messed up.
To punish Socrates (and presumably prevent him from spreading his immoral lessons), Strepsiades sets fire to the Thinkery at the end.