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 "they began to teach them: how they shall live, how they shall obey people, how to respect them, how they should deliver to the convenient, the right, And how to avoid the non-desirable, not right, Strongly fleeing from perversion and greed.

All there insistently received: The action which gives wisdom to the other’s faces, Prudence and wisdom. Huehuetlahtolli, translated by Angel María Garibay

Hence a teacher made strong hearts, was a guide, humanized the wanting of students, made them take a face or develop their personality, transmitted wisdom and placed a mirror in front of students so they knew their face, their true heart.

The educational action was not focused on knowledge and the individual. Instead, it relied on values and in the community. Wisdom was the knowledge transmission chain. This is the reason why the calmecac was consecrated to Quetzalcoatl, as the philosophical symbol of the Anahuac wisdom. Indeed, Quetzalcoatl had created the Fifth sun with his sacrifice for human beings, had provided