Cuba’s teaching process at the end of the XVIII century and the beginnings of the XIX century. St. Basil's College Seminary

Abstract

Because of  the undoubted influence of the illustrated tendency in the change of mentality of men in the island of Cuba, on the late XVIII century and the early XIX century, and because it constitutes the base for the formation of a national thought that would make a contribution to the formation of the Cuban identity, as well as the expression of an autochthonous revolutionary thought, with a view of praxis that evolves to our days, it is convenient to comment on one of the ways that allows the apprehension of these ideas in the largest of the Antilles: the teaching process.  It is conducted a brief review of the history of the institutions that influenced the assimilation, systematization and generalization of this tendency of thought for the aforesaid period, of which the San Basilio Magno Seminary School in Santiago de Cuba has the merit of its beginnings.