WisdomForge is a parent-operated academy. Ten subjects, four ages. The booklet is the text. The parent is the teacher. The guide is optional. Not a hosted kids chatbot. Does not make AI safe.
Ten subjects, four ages
Start on this website. The Hermes guides are optional. You run them.
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Pick an age, pick a subject, do a short lesson (a sitting). Print the booklet. No account. Nothing about your child is stored here.
How to start: Start tonight’s sitting → choose 5–10, 11–14, 15–18, or adult → one lesson.
Start tonight’s sitting →02
A Hermes profile you run, to prep the sitting. It talks to you, not to the child.
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A separate profile you build for their age. Never a copy of yours. You approve every session.
Kids profile kit →Four age groups. Pick the one that matches who is sitting tonight. When they grow up, pick the next one — do not reuse a younger profile.
01
Read. Try. Write. The first hand on the work is theirs.
02
Hint, not ghostwrite. Conversation only until a parent turns a tool on.
03
Fluency is a style. Truth is a check. Catch the confident wrong answer.
04
Not a spy. A person in the room. Ask a grown-up, talk about it, or refuse the tool.
AI use is a practice inside the lesson, not a separate app. Each subject has a first lesson you can do tonight, then more sittings if you want them.
The spine
What an agent is, what it is not, and how to stay the operator.
The filter
Claims, counterclaims, and what would change your mind.
Classics
The Stoics and the examined life, rewritten for the age in the chair.
Number
Estimate, show the method, then ask a tool to check the path — never the soul of the work.
Nature
Hypothesis before search. The universe is not a chatbot.
Letters
You write the draft. The guide is an editor who asks questions, not an author with your name on it.
Then
Primary sources first. Summaries — human or machine — are claims.
Make
Hands before generate. Taste is a muscle. Tools are not a substitute for seeing.
Systems
Specify the agent: soul, tools, refuse-list. Code is permission made explicit.
Voice
Say it yourself. A model can drill; it cannot take the exam of being understood.
Sample transcripts — no real child data. Watch the guide hint first, not give the answer. Correct the misreading, not the student. Do the activity before any AI.
The spine: autonomous use, integrity, and a mind that can refuse a fluent wrong answer.
ai · thinking · cs
Agency, anger, time, and duty — the Stoic year, practiced in the room.
philosophy · thinking
Write, read sources, speak. The human work that models compress.
english · history · language
Estimate, hypothesize, measure. Tools after the mind has moved.
math · science
Hands, systems, and taste. Generate last.
art · cs