What is Enlightenment?

I personally thought this reading was extremely difficult to understand but once you start reading the confusing parts, you start understanding some of the ideas Kant portrays. Overall I thought this reading was very interesting especially because what is said throughout the reading does relate to many people and what they go through. The passage that really caught my attention was the one we did in class and it said, "for himself(only for a short time) a man may postpone enlightenment in what he ought  to know, but to renounce it for posterity is to injure and trample on the rights of mankind. And what people may not decree for itself can even less be decreed for them by a monarch, for his lawgiving authority rests on his uniting the civl order, he can leave it to his subjects to do what they find necessary for their spiritual welfare".(Kant) I believed that Kant was referring to here is that we should always follow what we want to do and not what others would want us to do. Follow our own enlightenment especially because in the end it'll benefit ourselves and not those around us. There will be people who want to hold us back but it is our decision to move on and learn from our own mistakes and experiences.