THE SCHOOL PUNISHMENTS IN THE PEDAGOGICAL THINKING OF JOSÉ AGUSTÍN CABALLERO AND FÉLIX VARELA. PHILOSOPHY BASES

Abstract

The first questions about the conceptions of school discipline in force in the schools of Cuba appeared at the end of the 18th century, and were the Economic Societies of Friends of the Country, founded in Santiago de Cuba (1787) and its Havana counterpart, established six years later, the institutions that grouped the generation of enlightened intellectuals, bearer of educational reforms called to undermine the foundations of the scholastic disciplinary scheme hitherto prevailing. In this article two of the most important pedagogues who dabbled in this matter from philosophy are selected: José Agustín Caballero and Félix Varela.