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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break. -- Bill James
Standardization does not produce although admirable as an efficiency method. -- Reginald Fessenden
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption. -- Arthur Erickson
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture. -- Albert Einstein
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality. -- Erich Fromm
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. -- Harvey Cushing
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. -- Fredric Jameson
Our goal should be minimum standardization of human behavior. -- Douglas McGregor
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning. -- Andy Hargreaves
We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers. -- Andy Hargreaves
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. -- Henry Ford
Pedagogues: More than any other class of blind leaders of the blind they are responsible for the degrading standardization which now afflicts the American people. -- H. L. Mencken
Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up. -- Harvey Cushing
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not! -- Laura E. Richards
Five coordinating mechanisms seem to explain the fundamental ways in which organizations coordinate their work: mutual adjustment, direct supervision, standardization of work processes, standardization of work outputs, and standardization of worker skills. -- Henry Mintzberg
EU expansion is, unfortunately, continuing without a constitution, as a gradual process of standardization - and that's far more dangerous. It is very difficult to slow down this process, which is being pushed forward without significant public participation. -- Vaclav Klaus
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so dull and lazy and weak as to allow himself to be manipulated and standardized. -- Tom Robbins
The Americans are the living refutation of the Cartesian axiom, "I think, therefore I am": Americans do not think, yet they are. The American 'mind', puerile and primitive, lacks characteristic form and is therefore open to every kind of standardization. -- Julius Evola
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals. -- Ida Tarbell
This is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America - this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible. -- Langston Hughes
In an age of global standardization, regional voices also remind both writer and reader that no life is lived generically. If the purpose of literature is truly, as the ancients insisted, to instruct and delight, then what better to understand and enjoy than the here and the now ? -- Dana Gioia
The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy. -- Alvin Toffler
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. -- Jan Tschichold
Industrial agriculture, because it depends on standardization, has bombarded us with the message that all pork is pork, all chicken is chicken, eggs eggs, even though we all know that can't really be true. -- Joel Salatin
The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen. -- Will Self
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things. -- Alvar Aalto
America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. -- Jaron Lanier
When they say accountability, they mean surveillance and standardization. -- Marc Lamont Hill
Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. -- Frederick E. Crane
There is no blueprint to leadership, quite the conundrum in a business world where standardization is celebrated. -- Noel DeJesus
Globalization means standardization. The very rich and the very poor must want the same things, but only the rich can have them. -- Arundhati Roy
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives. -- Susan Glaspell

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