Immanuel Kant taught that enlightenment was a process, not a state, namely the process of thinking for oneself, and therefore living autonomously without submitting yourself to group-think and conformity with all those around you.

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity, immaturity being the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another…..Sapere Aude! (dare to know).

Have courage to use your own understanding , that is the motto of the enlightenment. Epicurus, I am sure, would have applauded the thought..

My little grandson has religion every day at assembly, before school starts. “Mummy”, he said to his mother, “do you know , there are actually people in the world who don’t believe in God?” It’s o.k. He will hear nothing negative from me. I will only tell him to use his mind and think for himself. He will get a good and a real education in any case. The outcome is for him.