{{Short description|Title for teachers in the Inca Empire}} {{other uses|Jose Carlos Mariategui}}
thumb | right | alt=Group of amautas in Plaza Murillo | Group of amautas in Plaza Murillo '''Amauta''' (meaning "master" or "wise one" in Quechua) was a title for teachers in the Inca Empire, especially of children of the nobility.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFD-iAC-xKEC&dq=Amauta+inca+education&pg=PA106|last1=McEwan |first1= Gordon Francis|year=2006|title=The Incas: New Perspectives|page=106|publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781851095742}} </ref> According to Fray Martin de Murua, a missionary in Peru, education in the Inca empire was instituted in schools called ''Yachaywasi'' or "Houses of Knowledge" in Cuzco. Students were children of the Inca nobility, the future rulers. The subjects were the moral standards, religion, government tenets, statistics, math, science, "Runa-Simi" language variety of Cuzco, Khipu interpretation, art, music construction,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pJJox3HlKrAC&pg=PA88|title=La quena Mollo: supervivencia y persistencia de música y danza tradicional andina|last=Quispe|first=Filemón|date=2008|publisher=Plural editores|isbn=9789995411473|pages=88|language=es}}</ref> history, agronomy, architecture,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYYQAAAAYAAJ|title=Modelos pedagógicos latinoamericanos: de la Yachay Wasi Inca a Cuernavaca|date=1994|publisher=Ediciones CEBIAE|pages=47|language=es}}</ref> medicine, philosophy and cosmological ideas of the earth and the universe, among other subjects.
The original ''Yachaywasi'' was constructed and inaugurated by Inca Roca. More schools like this were built as the empire grew, and were the centers of teaching the primary ideologies, histories, and philosophies of the empire. The amautas maintained this knowledge through an oral tradition and passed it on to the future generations.
The word is still used in modern Perú, the communist, José Carlos Mariátegui ran a magazine named "Amauta".
== See also == * Amauta Project, sponsored by the Departamento de Ciencia y Tecnología of the OEA [https://web.archive.org/web/20120203212155/http://elamauta.org/aboutus.html] ''(in Spanish)''
* Amautas, la aventura del conocimiento [https://amautas.com/]
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{Cite book |last=Castillo Morales |first=Juan |title=Historia del Perú |publisher=Editorial Universo }} ''(in Spanish)'' * {{Cite book |last=De la Vega |first=Garcilaso |title=The Royal Commentaries of the Incas }} * Amaruk Kayshapanta. [http://www.udllibros.com/libro-el_secreto_de_los_amawtas-Y950020248 El segreto de los Amawtas]. Ediciones Carena. (in Spanish)
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