Have the bravery to use your own reason! - that sums up the meaning of enlightenment. –" Immanuel Kant," What is Enlightenment?, 1784 According to Kant, what did the Enlightenment encourage people to do? be careful and cautious think for themselves rely on past ideas and principles follow decisions made by others

It encourages people to get education.

Explanation:

Enlightenment is an intellectual movement that occurs in the 17th and 18th centuries in which reason and evidences were considered as a primary source of knowledge that leads to scientific exploration and democracy. The Enlightenment encourage people to get education and science. due to this movement, the scientific exploration started and the Europe came out from its dark age towards modern period.

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according to worldatlas.com, the u.s. has an 86% literacy rate.