ZipWits

Critical thinking and character development in plain language, with clear examples and reflective questions. No set age level—it’s the interest, not the years.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

— Margaret Mead

Critical Thinking

Reason Right

Learning how to separate good thinking from the wonky.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

— Henry David Thoreau

Critical Thinking

Reason Rhyme

Learning how to make inferences about life using verse.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

— Rumi

Character Development

Wise Words

Making practical decisions using wise words as clues to conduct.

We are our choices.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Character Development

Noble Choices

A game-based approach to values based decision making.


❝ It is my duty to see that they get the truth; but that’s not enough, I’ve go to put it before them briefly so that they will read it, clearly so that they will understand it, forcibly so that they will appreciate it, picturesquely so that they will remember it, and, above all, accurately so that they may be wisely guided by its light. ❞

Joseph Pulitzer [Alleyne Ireland, Joseph Pulitzer: Reminiscences of a Secretary, 1915, p. 68-69]


Learn to Learn

ZipWits is a set of exercises for today’s world: decision-making based on reason and values. Use the exercises on your own or to supplement a program.

Roger Kenyon, Zipwits developer

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