Why would anyone learn anything if not to help in the pursuit of a goal? Every aspect of human behavior involves the pursuit of goals in some ways. Understanding how people pursue goals is a critical aspect of understanding cognition. Humans should have control over where to go and what to do when they are learning. Today, curriculums are typically designed and developed to make sure everyone learns the same body of knowledge. By contrast, the curriculum must be designed so the level of control engages our interests and allows us to follow paths of inquiry relating to our individual goals. Society should allow people to determine which activities to pursue and when to pursue, in hope of providing us with a greater feeling of being in control.

Research has demonstrated that humans learn by experimenting, failing and copying behaviors that have better results. Society assumes that we do not know what we should know and that what we want to know is of little relevance. Instead, we should eliminate traditional academic courses and facilitate skills on an as-needed basis. This method allows for the creation of Goal-Based scenarios (GBS) curriculum that provides motivation, a sense of accomplishment, a support system, and a focus on humans' goals. Give humans the control of developing their educational goals and the curriculum will be developed to help them achieve their goals.

For example, a student's interest is becoming an accountant. In today's society, the student must take the following pre-requisite courses: psychology, biology and sociology before being accepted in the accounting department. The student is not interested in these courses because they do not satisfy his educational goal and interest in accounting. The accounting department will lose a motivated student if the curriculum is not modified to fit the student's educational goal. Therefore, the accounting department incorporates the GBS curriculum in their program and the student becomes motivated to learn accounting and achieve his goal.

A human's interest is a terrible thing to waste. Society is not designing courses to fit individual interests and goals. Educators consider the courses to be necessary facts of information. The consequences of these actions are humans' lack of motivation for obtaining individual goals. Society must offer curriculum choices by utilizing GBS and encouraging us to pursue and understand our educational goals.