Goals of learning social studies

To help students develop Social Understanding and Civic Efficacy

1. To acquire Knowledge from the social sciences and humanities
2. To develop appropriate democratic Values and Beliefs
3. To develop Skills to think, to study, and to make well-informed decisions
4. To provide learning opportunities for Citizenship/Social Participation

Purpose
Prepare students to become visionary learners, critical thinkers, and well-informed decision makers; provide students with basic skills that they need to function effectively in our democratic society in a globalized and interdependent world where information technology become ubiquitous and more sophisticated,  knowledge-based economy become increasingly competitive, and multicultural understanding and appreciation becomes a basic requirement for every citizen in the 21st century. 

 "If a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was & never will be."
~~ Thomas Jeffereson

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people...they are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” 
~~ Thomas Jeffereson

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
~~President James A. Garfield

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically… Intelligence plus character–that is the goal of true education."
~~Martin Luther King Jr.