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dishonor." Alfredo López Austín. The Education of ancient Nahuas (La Educación de los antiguos nahuas) I. Méx. 1985.

As it can be appreciated in this Huehuetlahtolli fragment, the stringent rules were ethical and moral guided social interaction. The careful speech, firm but loving, indicates the son a way of behaving in life and in the world. These appeals were memorized and transmitted from parents to children for centuries, so it remained in the collective subconscious of the sons of the sons of the old grandparents, Mexicans of today, a standard of conduct, education acquired through the centuries of exercise from generation to generation applied at home and in popular culture.

This educational treasure is still alive and existing in Mexican families, comforming education, which is transmitted orally and by example, within families. Requires reassessing and dimensioning this cultural legacy to support school classroom education.

8. - ANAHUAC EDUCATION FOUNDATION.

If the Anahuac civilization had for at least three thousand years, an educational system, necessarily those who one day invented the corn, the mathematical zero or the perfect count of time, inevitably had to have a deep and polished philosophical sense on education. The


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