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 shared by all peoples across their time and space. An absolute integration and correlation between celestial mechanics, mathematics, environment and their world and life conception. And the creation and development of an educational, public, compulsory and free, system during at least three thousand consecutive years.

However, due to the mental and cultural colonization, the Mexico ancient past has been sentenced to denial and distortion. Denial comes from the creole idea that "the nation" and its "history", begins with Europeans arrival. The seven and a half millennia are only "pre-Hispanic history," i.e. before us, erasing and devaluing the past.

Distortion, because the only reference considered is the Mexica or Aztec culture. It is exalted as the highest development apex of the Anahuac, when this is completely false. The Aztecs barely had power as of Moctezuma Ilhuicamina in 1440 and his power was based on the Quetzalcoatl wisdom and teaching transgression.

The Toltec spiritual character education system became, during the last 80 years of the Aztec culture, a military squad training system, to perform imperialist wars which were designed to gather prisoners for sacrifice and to impose heavy taxes on vanquished peoples. This essay will discuss education during the classical period 200 BCE to 850 CE.