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 As is appreciated, the temachitiani was more focused on "the value formation", that in the knowledge transmission. Values are related to discipline, responsibility, respect, honesty, spirituality development, solidarity and team work ability. Knowledge transmission occurred in the practice of everyday tasks to make institutions self-sufficient, whether in the milpa, in the pottery workshop or the maintenance and construction of educational buildings. It started from the idea that knowledge without wisdom was harmful to the individual and the community.

The action of giving other’s faces wisdom (Ixtlamachiliztli), is deeply understood with the concept of "humanizing the wanting" (netlacaneco). Indeed, not all human beings desire or wanting can be positive or biophilous for the individual or the community. Humanizing the wanting is the restraint of passions, the containment of weaknesses. For the wise toltec the individual, the community and the world were perfectible, and it is precisely here where education takes its intersectoral and transcendent dimension. Only from this perspective the depth and meaning of Anahuac education can be understood, and the reason why it lasted for three millennia.



Thus the teacher in his daily tasks, living together in the educational institution with students, taught by example and hence had an impeccable behavior. The didactic foundation was to conduct a virtuous life inside and outside the educational compound.