Resumen:
The importance of learning foreign languages was recognized by José Martí, who in a letter to María Mantilla dated April 9, 1885, wrote about the importance of knowing another language as a way to gain knowledge and how to use it to face life with more preparation. Another important Cuban magister of the twentieth century, Enrique J. Varona saw learning English as an important task to be developed and raised its inclusion in school curricula since the fourth grade
