The goals of St. Joseph Institute of Education is to provide the students and staff an opportunity:
- To think for themselves independently and critically.
- To seek, extend and apply knowledge to the solution of human problems.
- To continually strive for excellence in every field.
- To become mature, spiritually aware men and women of character.
- To value and judiciously use their freedom, combining with it a full sense of responsibility for actions.
- To be clear and firm on principles and courageous in action.
- To help them discover and appreciate their unique vocation as teachers.
- To be unselfish in the service of their fellowmen and concerned for the welfare of the poor and socially oppressed.
- To become agents of the needful social change in their own situations.
- To bring quality in education and relevance to all, and in particular to the marginalized sections of the society.
- To ensure that education frees persons from social conditioning such as caste, class, gender and other culture linked prejudices which prevents them to see life as a vocation and as a gift.
- To enable them to make free and considered choices in the key areas that affect their personal lives, communities and society.
- To provide an education that leads the young into sacred space of the human person and of every person making them aware of the inalienable human rights of every individual and group.
- To foster pluralism, cultural and religious diversity, individual and collective freedom and respect for and application of differences in the face of a globalized world that aggressively pushes towards economic and cultural uniformity.
- To provide an education that humanizes and contextualizes by assisting the students to raise essential questions concerning the meaning of life and of their role in society enabling them to become conscious of their responsibility to contribute to evolving a borderless society and to promote common good.
- To enable the youth to understand the implications of economic policies and structures, political decisions and the media that play a critical role in shaping peoples’ lives especially those of the poor and the social responsibility of citizens as individuals and as groups to engage in proactive measures to bring in both transparency and accountability.
- To provide an education that energizes the youth to take up the task of contributing to nation building, so as to evolve a new inclusive Indian society, an India of their dreams, which they can own with pride and joy.
- To provide an education that forms the young to evolve as men and women of character, competence, conscience, compassion and commitment who contribute to the evolution of a counter culture.
- To promote collaboration and co-operation for the growth of all in a climate of mutual trust and sharing and by fostering uprightness in public life.
- To provide an education which nurtures an encounter with God as a personal event and a free response to the call of faith which nurtures a life of meaning, purpose and personalized values, including appreciation of other faiths.
- To enable the catholic youth to enlighten and strengthen the faith, lead to intelligent participation in the liturgy and provide motivation for apostolic activities.