The purpose of Kappa Delta Pi shall be to promote excellence in and recognize outstanding contributions to education. It shall endeavor to maintain a high degree of professional fellowship among its members, quicken professional growth, and honor achievement in educational work. To these ends it shall invite to membership such persons as exhibit commendable personal qualities, worthy educational ideals, and sound scholarship, without regard to race, age, color, religion, sex, or handicapping condition. To the fulfillment of these ideals, I pledge my efforts and loyalty. Education is a vital force in any society that encourages universal welfare and individual progress.
Education is likewise the cornerstone of democracy and the foundation for personal fulfillment.
The central ideal of fidelity to Humanity is faith in the potential of all human beings, through education, to experience more meaningful lives. Kadelpians pledge their loyalty to the ideal that young and old of every race and creed shall, through equality of educational opportunity, enjoy physical health, social and political rights, and economic justice. Fidelity to the ideal of Science requires faithfulness to the cause of free inquiry. It implies accepting proven and replicative truth as a way of eliminating prejudice and superstition. It also implies not rushing to condemn the old and tested truth to accept ideas and practices that seem new and spectacular.