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 This education level was philosophically dedicated to Tezcatlipoca, in its representation of the "Interior Enemy". Young people had to face the internal enemy that every human being carries inside, that is, the limitations and defects that drags matter (which contains the "divine spark"), by the gravity force, to the depths of human stupidity.

In fact, the "smoking Mirror" concept is the ability to "see ourselves", in an inner transformation process. This is the reason why "the house of youth" was consecrated to Tezcatlipoca. The education on spiritual and community values. The development of self-sufficient and supportive "citizens", ethically solvent and participative, aware of their rights and obligations, of their traditions, history and culture, able to form a new family and strengthen their calpulli was the fundamental objective of the Classical period telpochcalli.