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 Tasks were given according to age and students themselves instructed younger ones, so they encouraged responsibility and teamwork in the "younger brothers". These tasks ranged from maintaining cleanliness, passing through production and processing of foodstuffs and consumables required for subsistence, up to maintaining the cult of the supreme divinity, and building and repairing school buildings.

The Toltec sense of educational practice was based on values, which should be worked on daily with the students, through physical, mental and artistic activities, so as to develop habits, and so that they, over time, formed character; or, as Nahuatl symbolism tells it, the student should form their "own face and true heart".

This face, like a solid stone, and this heart, strong as a trunk, shall eventually define the fate of their lives.

Guillermo Marín www.toltecayotl.org gmarin@toltecayotl.org