It is difficult to name another person who would be at the same time so highly valued in academic circles and respected by the widest range of ordinary citizens. It is citizens, not just readers, that Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (19372021) remains in our memory a model of a real patriot and citizen. In recent years, Chudakova has written a lot for children and adolescents . “Do you want to learn how to think?” one of the last manuscripts that she submitted to the publishing house How to distinguish a feeling from an opinion or belief? Is it possible to change the national character? Do you know how and do you think it is necessary! to listen to the interlocutor? Are you ready to believe historical documents or have you been convinced, that there are no exact truths in the history? Each of these questions in the book is devoted to a whole chapter. To learn to think Marietta Omarovna offers on the material on which she studied herself - on Russian literature and domestic history. And therefore she did not have a monograph or a textbook, but wise and interesting notes about what she read and experienced.