Remember those wonderful teachers in your life? Some of them taught you about: separating facts from opinions, distinguishing misleading information, and interacting with what you read. 

Hopefully, you also learned to recognize bias, slant and emotional appeal. Because you read well and are literate, you form strong opinions and support them. Every teacher, both formal and informal, helped you develop your skills.

You may have fought learning vocabulary, sentence and paragraph construction and simple concepts, but many teachers encouraged you. You got where you are because of your own determination and the help of many along the way.