# @science on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-03-09T23:10:15.000+00:00
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🎓️ Until the age of fourteen, the education of children was in the hands of their parents but supervised by the authorities of their calpulli. Periodically, they attended their local temples to test their progress.⁠
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Part of this education involved learning a collection of sayings, called huehuetlatolli ("The sayings of the old"), that embodied the Aztecs' ideals. It included speeches and sayings for every occasion, the words to salute the birth of children and to say farewell at death. Fathers admonished their daughters to be respectful and very clean, but not to use makeup, because they would look like ahuianis. Mothers admonished their daughters to support their husbands, even if they turned out to be humble peasants. Boys were admonished to be humble, obedient, and hard workers. Judging by their language, most of the huehuetlatolli seemed to have evolved over several centuries, predating the Aztecs and most likely adopted from other Nahua cultures.⁠
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Children were taught at home until about 15 years of age, but all Aztec children, boys, and girls were expected to attend school for some time when they were between 10 and 20 years old. Boys and girls went to school at age 15.⁠
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