Legacy of Education of Pre-hispanic Aztec Civilization

众所周知，阿兹特克人从小就非常重视子女的教育问题。例如，一位西班牙牧师在征服后观察了阿兹特克人在伊兹密尔的社会，他写道：“没有什么比墨西哥人抚养孩子的关心和纪律更让我钦佩，在我看来更值得赞扬和纪念。“根据他们独特的战斗宗教观念，阿兹特克人强烈希望向儿童和穆斯林灌输身心力量和献身于公共利益的性格。值得注意的是，他们已经有了一个普遍的义务教育体系，我们现在可以利用一些写于16世纪的本土文本和历史文献来重建其文明和日常生活。这些文字记录中包含了许多重要的信息，涉及到他们的父母在家中的教育和他们的学校教育制度。在这份报告中，我将从西班牙原文中翻译出一些关于前西班牙时期阿兹特克人教育的历史文献，旨在提供当时阿兹特克教育的全景。

It is known that the Aztecs paid much attention to the problem of the education of their children from an early age. For example, one Spanish priest who observed the aztec society in imediately after the conquest wrote his surprise as follows ; "Nothing caused me so much admiration and seems to me more worthy of praise and remembering than the care and discipline with which the Mexicans raised their children. "Based on their peculiar militant-religious concepts, the Aztecs felt a strong desire to instill in the children and youngs strength of mind and of body and a character devoted to the public good. It seems worth noting that they had already a universal and obligatory system of education.We can now make use of some indegenous texts and historical documents written in the sixteenth century to reconstruct its civilization and their daily life. And some of these written records includes many important informations concerning their parental teaching at home and their schooling system. In this report, it is intended to provid a panoramic view of Aztec education of those days, and I translated some of these historical documents on the education of the Aztecs in pre-hispanic period from spanish original texts.