1-153-486 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Aztec education of boys (left) and girls (right). Boys are shown being punished by a father who holds him over a fire of burning chillies while lecturing him, stripped and thrown in a muddy puddle in the street, taught to carry loads, to paddle canoe and to fish. Girls are shown being punished and lectured while breathing fumes of burning chillies, taught to grind maize, to sweep and to weave. From the Bodleian Library, Oxford.