 As an educator, he enacted the inauguration of the second high school for girls in Turkey, the Kandilli High School for Girls in 1916 in Istanbul (it was intended to be the first, but the outbreak of World War I delayed the execution of the project).After retiring from public life at the end of World War I, Ahmet Rıza wrote his memoirs.They were published more than 50 years after his death in 1988 under the title "Meclis-i Mebusan ve Ayan Reisi Ahmet Rıza Bey’in Anıları" ("The Memoirs of Ahmet Rıza, the President of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate").