With the supreme objective of strengthening the Nation, guaranteeing freedom, ensuring democracy and institutional stability, exalting human dignity, promoting social justice, general welfare and regional integration, and invoking the protection of God, the Political Constitution of the Republic of Panama is decreed
Article 88. Education must attend to the harmonious and comprehensive development of the student within social coexistence, in physical, intellectual, moral, aesthetic and civic aspects and must seek their training for useful work in their own interest and for collective benefit.