Background: New technologies, which are resulted by human thinking and have ‎suddenly changed the level and quality of human life and have caused ‎yesterday's impossibilities to be not only possible but also obvious, has brought ‎the education system into a new era, which is called lifelong learning era. The ‎existence of appropriate opportunities in the lifelong learning era that provides ‎possibility of learning at any time and place a well as increasing information ‎growth has created a serious challenge to traditional ethical education in the ‎education process so that founders of educational system must find a solution ‎for the growth of ethical education. Thinking is the highest level of education. By integrating the components of critical thinking in lifelong learning ‎environments, the context of the growth of ethics education is being provided ‎more than ever.‎
Conclusion: Lifelong learning era has provided a challenge and an opportunity ‎for ethical education.‎‏ ‏The challenge is that traditional education approaches ‎cannot grow up audiences of educational system in terms of ethical education, ‎and the opportunity is that the ethical education goals can be realized through ‎integrating critical thinking elements in a lifelong educational system ‎considering the potential that the lifelong educational system has in terms of ‎critical thinking. The lifelong learning system in the lifelong learning era lies ‎in the components of critical thinking, and these ‎components can be brought from the hidden and potential levels to the actual ‎level by designing and integrating them.‎