The Quiet Curriculum
About This Series: The Quiet Curriculum
The Quiet Curriculum is my name for something I believe is always shaping us. Whether in classrooms, clinics, or communities. It refers to the formative patterns that operate beneath the surface of official instruction or public debate: how we learn to attend, to decide, to belong, to judge what matters.
It began as a reflection on leadership in professional education. How students and colleagues absorb not just what we teach, but how we model thoughtfulness, integrity, and coherence. A lesson from my friend Gary Moore, “more is caught than taught.” But over time, I’ve come to see that this hidden curriculum doesn’t stop at the campus gates. It’s at work in how we consume media, form beliefs, engage politics, and relate to truth itself.
These essays are part of that exploration. They ask: What’s forming us right now? And how might we resist what fragments, distracts, and deforms us? We should want to live, think, and lead with greater clarity.
Here are some posts that could be considered part of the quiet curriculum - in reverse chronological order.
Posts prior to deciding to build a collection on the Quiet Curriculum
