The goal of Kumon is to help children experience the joy of learning and advancing on their own and foster them to be people who can continue learning with essential strengths and qualities they will need for the rest of their lives. Through continued self-learning, children acquire a strong academic foundation, higher levels of work skills, concentration skills and perseverance. Through this they then go on to develop a sense of self-initiative and independence, which not only leads to higher academic ability but also increased creative thinking.

Continued self-learning with the Kumon Method allows children to continually strengthen these skills and allows them to apply these skills to other aspects of their lives, while enabling them to become people who can contribute to society in the future.