At a gathering of teachers once, a simple question was put to the room. What assumptions do students today seem to be carrying, whether or not anyone taught them directly?
Four answers came back quickly, almost without hesitation. That money brings happiness. That it should be earned with the least possible effort. That material things and position matter more than anything else. That life is fundamentally a struggle, and competition is simply how it works.
Nobody had to be told these things in a classroom for them to take root. They arrive through advertising, through the visible behaviour of adults, through the quiet signals a household sends about what actually matters when nobody is explaining anything out loud. A child absorbs far more from what is modeled than from what is said.
The second question asked of that room was harder to sit with. What in the current curriculum actually addresses any of these four assumptions directly? Not talks about them abstractly, but actually tests them, questions them, offers a child a real alternative to weigh against them?
The room went quiet, because the honest answer was close to nothing.
This is worth pausing on, because the four assumptions listed above are not neutral. Chase money as the source of happiness and disappointment eventually follows, since happiness was never a material thing to begin with. Treat life as pure competition and cooperation starts to look like weakness rather than the more natural default it actually is.
A child raised without ever being asked to examine these assumptions will very likely inherit them wholesale, the same way clothing style or accent gets absorbed without ever being consciously chosen. The question worth asking at home, quietly, without turning it into a lecture, is simple. What is actually being modeled here, and would it survive being said out loud.