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 In this way the constructive efforts long periods of the Anahuac can be understood. As for example Monte Alban, in today’s Oaxaca State.

In fact, Monte Alban started its first constructive phase in the year 500 BCE and was destroyed and abandoned in the year eight hundred fifty CE. Which meant a sustained constructive effort during one thousand three hundred and fifty years, in which the architectural-constructive purpose remained unchanged, which implies that "the ideas, objectives and aspirations" by which millions of tons of earth and stone were moved, maintained its validity unchanged. This could only be achieved through education. The telpochcallis, the cuicacallis and the calmeca maintained the social purpose in children and young people, from 500 BCE until 850 CE.

Education in its broadest sense was totally immersed in the social fabric. The same applied at home and in public spaces. In the family and state objectives. Education was present in obtaining food, in its preparation and consumption. The individual had to learn the secrets and knowledge of the food miracle. The same way it applies to health.

But the same applies to social organization. Ethics and morality, understood as personal and social value judgments, are transmitted-learnt through direct and indirect education, formal and informal processes. It is then education, which enabled the individual, the family and the community, to feed, sustain health, organize and live in harmony in society. But more importantly, education is what allows maintaining the social purpose order and achieve the higher abstract projects of a civilization over time.