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 resistant heart as a tree trunk; wise face, owner of a face and a heart, skilled and sympathetic".

But the Nahuatl language, an ancient universe, contains very specific education concepts, which reveal a very rich world where our ancestors placed much emphasis. In fact, to get to know a culture is required to perceive it from the perspective of their cosmo vision and in the case of language: from its "cosmo audition" as asserted by Carlos Lenkersdorf, because the anahuaca people of yesterday and today, speak from their heart.

For example, the word —ixtlamachiliztli— which implies the action of giving or transmitting wisdom to external faces, speaks of the teaching—learning process or itech netlacaneco which means "Humanize the people desires". Ancient Mexicans not only had public institutions such as the Telpochcalli, Cuicacalli or Calmécac, but within the Anahuac civilization, education was in itself an institution, central column which sustained the anahuaca society. Otherwise a thousand years of splendor and seven thousand five hundred of continuous human development cannot be understood.

The teacher.

Another very important aspect of education was teachers. The teacher embodies the same precepts of the "own face and the true heart". The master was a community guide, beyond the classroom, because the teacher of all time educates with the example of his own life. The teacher —temachtiani— in Nahuatl language is defined in the Matritense Codex as follows:

“Teacher of truth, does not stop reprimanding. Makes others faces wise, ____________________