It is no exaggeration to say that critical thinking is one of the most important subjects you will study in college regardless of your academic major. The quality of your schoolwork, your efforts in your career, your contributions to community life, your conduct of personal affairs—all will depend on your ability to solve problems and make decisions. 

Suppose someone asked:  “Who are you?” \ What Is Truth? \  How Good Are Your Opinions? 

You must  be confused, because you are limited  for  time, places  and culture.

specific circumstances, understandings, beliefs, and customs, all of which limit your experience and influence your thought patterns. 

If you had lived in America in colonial times, you likely would have had no objec- tion to the practice of barring women from serving on a jury, entering into a legal contract, owning property, or voting. 

If you had lived in the nineteenth century, you would have had no objection to young children being denied an education and being hired out by their parents to work sixteen hours a day, nor would you have given any thought to the spe- cial needs of adolescence.