Some ways enlightenment thinking has shaped modern colleges and universities affects us even as we walk around Texas State University The biggest example of the enlightenment influence through education is that the early philosophers set up a way for every person to have an education, they wanted to give us a way to study not just one subject, but to give us all an overall education through empiricism, such as science, philosophy, social studies, math, reading, and writing. Through of these courses and experiences, this gives us each an overall education that allows our minds to grow and to acquire more knowledge that helps shape us into a society and allows the importance of shaping young minds early. Enlightenment allows everyone to have
