Quotes on Standardization

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

So far, we do not seem appalled at the prospect of exactly the same kind of education being applied to all the school children from the Atlantic to the Pacific, but there is an uneasiness in the air, a realization that the individual is growing less easy to find; an idea, perhaps, of what standardization might become when the units are not machines, but human beings.

I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.