In “An answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?”, Immanuel Kant defines enlightenment to be someone who is courageous enough to make use of their own understanding without being influenced by others.  Through Malcolm X we witness that with education anyone can be enlightened. A prisoner, not only in a cell but in his own mind, had taught himself how to read and write and  by remaining disciplined in his studies, he began to understand not only the history of his people but his spirit to share it with all of America.