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 papalote, cane ball game, clay wood and fabric articulated dolls, pottery animals with a wheel base, puppets, musical instruments, wrestling, athletics and hunting and fishing, among many others.

However, of what little remains of ancient Mexico education, it can be asserted that "Huehuetlahtolli" or the elders discourse is the most illustrative instrument that allows us to know the values that were transmitted daily to children and young people. In them, is a millenary tradition of values to guide the formation of an individual, which was polished over the centuries and which contains the life wisdom and experience of a civilization. The Huehuetlahtolli is a values, principles and attitudes decalogue, that children and young, will have to practice in the world and life, at intimate, family and community spaces.

"Conversation or appeal from a father to his son. My son, created and born in the world by God, in whose birth we your parents and relatives put our eyes. You've born and lived, and emerged as a chick hatch and grew like it; you rehearse the flight and temporary exercise. We do not know how long God will want us to enjoy such a precious jewel. I came, son, carefully, and entrust to God that created you, to help you, because he is your father who loves you more than me. Yearn to him day and night, and place your thoughts in him. Serve him with love, so that he favors you and free you from dangers. To the image of God and his things have much reverence, and pray in front of him devoutly and participate in his festivals.