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 Finally, "the human", was not only inevitably linked to the divine, but at earth, was totally and absolutely immersed in the community. The individual, wheher male or female, was linked to a great obligation and existential responsibility before the supreme divinity and their community. Serving the community efficiently, was the highest performance that a human being could socially have in life. A human being could not be conceived without these two great responsibilities.

Hence human beings were metaphorically called —In ixtli, in yóllotl—, “the face, the heart”, giving it a moral and ethical dimension. In ancient Anahuac, men were not born "finished", on the contrary, were perfectible, imbued with a formative process, in which family, school and society intervened. The person through life, especially in the first part, gradually formed "an own face" and a "true heart", education foundation, from where the ixtlamachilitzli concept originates, "action of giving wisdom to the faces and tlacahuapahualiztli," art of raising and educating human beings". Education was considered the highest art, and the Toltec, the supreme artists.


 * 9. - TELPOCHCALLI AND TEZCATLIPOCA. 

The second part of the educational process took place at the first institution provided by the system. The Telpochcalli or "House of youth" was a boarding school entered at about seven years. There were telpochcallis for men and women, which were called Ichpochcalli, the schools attended by girls and young women. There