Design Based Education can assist students to define their values, develop guiding principles, the ability to communicate and apply these principles, to conduct their lives in keeping with them and to evolve a personal philosophy that can bring satisfaction and fulfillment to their lives. Intending is a quest for Humanity. It calls for optimism regarding human potential, consideration of others, faith, patience, encouragement and commitment to others. Students acquire humanistic values and learn to apply civic principles as they come to understand their own human individuality in relation to others, and learn to express themselves purposefully with consideration for others. Defining is a quest for Significance in that it requires the identification of entities and the specification of attributes having potential value in fulfilling an intention or achieving a goal.
Students learn what is significant through the use of languages.
If curses are emphasized around them, students will curse. If cigarettes are important social gestures, students will use them that way. If the achievement of personal goals is understood to be significant they will act accordingly. It calls for insight, abstraction, creative ideas, imagination, initiative, analysis and the ability to organize and link ideas and resources to create, structure propose and develop potential solutions. Students acquire values regarding what is relevant, helpful and potentially useful as they develop ways to enhance creative problem- solving, put correct theory into practice and engage different ideas and disciplines to address the realities of a problem.