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This values education (non-formal and non-school), transmitted through ancestral culture, allows individuals, families and peoples, to have better eating habits and to eat "out of nothing", the same in a desert as in a forest. But also, this education transmitted in the traditions, uses and customs, allows them to have good hygiene habits and healing methods, which include plants, insects, minerals and ancient techniques. These knowledge is implicit in construction, planting, reforestation, community organization and justice delivery methods and techniques.

Finally, education also prepares individuals from childhood to "serve" the community, to obey and respect hierarchies, learning that the community interest is more important than the individual.

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