The Mayans were smart and excelled in the arts, mathematics, architecture, farming, and astronomy, although only the chiefs, priest, leaders and war leaders get the formal and proper education other people can get a smaller education from their parents or friends that have a general education that have been past on through the previous generations of there family. The educations they got although not strong gave them a basic understand of living, e.g. they were taught how to hunt and catch food for dinner. The women would have been taught how to make clothing for there families. Throughout the different tribes they would have had different teaching strategies but all following a basic pattern and method. They were taught multiple different languages, to write things down they would paint onto bark, which has since been destroyed, or they would paint on rocks. Part of there education was learning their values, as the Mayans did not only strive for a better work ethic but they also worked for the betterment on the tribe and the society.