The Attention Curriculum
We teach values not through our sermons but through the patterns of our attention. Children learn what truly matters by watching what consistently captures the adult gaze, not what captures the adult voice. Parents who proclaim kindness whilst celebrating only achievement discover their children have absorbed the lesson of their focus, not their words. This attention curriculum operates in every relationship where influence flows—from leaders to followers, teachers to students, friends to friends. The most powerful moral education happens not in moments of explicit instruction, but in the accumulated weight of where we repeatedly direct our notice, energy, and praise.