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Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops. -- Virginia Postrel
Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning. -- Andy Hargreaves
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform. -- Margaret Mead
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole. -- Alfie Kohn
Standardized state tests are a scam! The educational system is rigged. It is set up to where the wealthy schools, get all of the state funding. The poverty-stricken schools, don't get enough funding due to standardized tests scores. See my point? -- Mary Sage Nguyen
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. -- James Dyson
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. -- Irwin Edman
Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses. -- Paul Singer
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams. -- Jonathan Kozol
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that. -- Michelle Obama
I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. -- Jean Giraudoux
Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet. -- Jose Ferreira
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills. -- Virginia Postrel
I had started teaching because I love brainteasers. At some point, I had taken every standardized test out there - the SATs, the GREs, the GMATs, the MCATs. I just took them for fun. -- Jose Ferreira
It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole. -- Richard Grasso
CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex. -- Marcus Buckingham
If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers. -- Bill Gates
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything. -- Brene Brown
If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their installation, and then also decides to arrange the remaining living area with movable walls, I believe that any justified living requirements can be met. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child. -- Channing Tatum
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
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests. -- Darell Hammond
Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not. -- Ken Robinson
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. -- Henry Petroski
With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.' -- Amity Shlaes
I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that. -- Ashley Rickards
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms. -- Aaron Levie
I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry. -- Robert James Thomson
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. -- Taiichi Ohno
My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core! -- Louis C. K.
Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test. -- Alfie Kohn
In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned. -- Kevin B. Rollins
I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become. -- Gus Van Sant
Polls are the corporate media's standardized tests to determine how well we have learned what it has taught us. -- Sam Smith
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. -- Diane Ravitch
Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about. -- Seth Godin
ClichÃ©s, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality. -- Hannah Arendt
The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing. -- Nat Hentoff
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized test scores. -- Raheem Jarbo
...a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school... -- Terry Roberts
Look on education as something between the child's soul and God. Modern Education tends to look on it as something between the child's brain and the standardized test. -- Charlotte Mason
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, and decision-making. -- Richard Louv
I am very attracted by bad taste-it is a lot more exciting than that supposed good taste which is nothing more than a standardized way of looking at things, -- Helmut Newton
Carbon neutrality is going to be so standardized that you will look at anything that is not carbon neutral and go, "where the hell did that monster come from?" It's exciting. -- Christiana Figueres
I've been to Vulcan where I've been vulcanized, Carbon where you get carbonated and Standard where you get standardized. Ernie Isley's invited me to Castor "¦ and I'm not looking forward to it. -- Ralph Klein
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people. -- Alejandro Zambra
ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes. -- Pepi Leistyna
Public libraries are our great teachers and storytellers, and are a vital adjunct to our schools. In this day of standardized and homogenized education, a library offers individual and personalized learning opportunities second to none. -- Julie Andrews
Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama. -- Irving Babbitt

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