Kant reading

When I started reading this, I had no idea what it was saying or what it was trying to say. It was pretty confusing but after going over it and dissecting bits and pieces of it in class it makes a little more sense. To understand this packet you must first understand what enlightenment means and its still a little hazy to me. He said the word tutelage a lot which means protection of or authority over something. Enlightenment would mean like being introduced to something knew such as knowledge. This packet was pretty confusing but I did like the section I had to go over in class. It was about the differences between public use of reason and private use of reason and how it relates to enlightenment. Kant believes that public use of reason is a promoter of enlightenment and private use can restrict it. I agree with him but there can be exceptions to where private use would be better. The use of public reason is for the reason to be free, or known to the public. It is not held inside and individual or a small grou of people. Public use would be a promoter of enlightenment because everyone would have that new knowledge or idea. Private use could be known to restrict enlightenment because not everyone would be introduced to it. I think it could go both ways because what if the public use of reason is false or not relevant, It wouldnt promote enlightenment.