Education
The answer to the question: What is education?
Education - this way people from the minority of his in which he is on his own fault. Infancy is the inability to use his mind, without guidance from someone else. Minority of its own fault - it is, the cause of which is not a lack of reason but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from someone else. Sapere aude! - Have the courage to use their own minds! - Is therefore the motto of the Enlightenment.
Laziness and cowardice - these are the reasons that so much of people whom nature has long been liberated from someone else's guide (naturaliter maiorennes), nevertheless gladly remain in lifelong minors, for the same reasons as other easy to assume the right to be their guardians. In fact, so easy to be a minor! If I have a book, thinking of me, if I have a pastor, whose consciences can replace my own, and a physician, requiring me to such a lifestyle, etc., then I have nothing, and spare yourself. I do not need to think, if I am able to pay, it will dull affair in my other.
The fact that the vast majority of people (among them the entire fair sex) considers not only difficult but also very dangerous transition to adulthood - is already taking care of guardians, so kindly take a supreme supervision over the majority.
Educators believed that all men are by nature equal and have the "natural rights", ie Data from human nature. These principles have been directed against the feudal class restrictions of society, have expressed interest krepnuvshey bourgeoisie.
Rejecting the medieval understanding of the divine origin of royal power, educators have put forward the idea of "social contract". According to this theory, the state created on the basis of voluntary agreements between people, a prisoner in ancient times. Such a voluntary agreement at any time, you can terminate. The theory used to justify a possible change of the type of state power, the future bourgeois revolutions.