Aztec Genius

Synopsis
Mothers taught their daughters how to cook, clean, and sew.  Fathers taught their sons vocations. The parents taught their children etiquette and proper behavior.  Children started doing tasks at 3.  As they get older they are given more complex tasks.

There were 2  very important schools in the Aztec society.  There were schools 4 nobility and one for commoners.  There was also a school for women.  Women were taught weaving, childcare, singing, dancing, religion, and how to decorate.

The school of nobility was called Calmecac.  Sometimes commoners were allowed in calmecac so they could become priests.  Songs, rituals, literacy, and the calendar. Students that graduated from this school became politicians, priests, and generals. Jaguar and Eagle warriors taught here as well.

Telpochcalli was the school future warriors went too.  The macehualtin (working class people) went to this school. You had to be 15 years old to go there.  People that went to school severed their community.  They built walls, cleaned up, farmed,  and they dug canals.   It was against the law to be drunk at a Telpochcalli.  If someone became drunk there, they were executed.

There were schools 4  macehualtin.  They were taught about history and religion. Students were taught different trades.  There were several types of this school.                      

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