Quotes About Standardization

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Americans are getting like a Ford car, they all have the same exact parts, the same upholstering and make exactly the same noises.

And he pointed out that Shona (his native tongue) in its written form was covered with the white man's fingerprints — it was, after all, missionaries who standardized it and rendered it onto the page, largely to facilitate their Christian proselytizing, which often functioned as the Trojan horse leading to full-blown indigenous cultural servitude.

Personally yes I want our country to have one league. When it's going to be one league, which we all are hearing, it has to be abiding by AFC rules.

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

And an equation is the same whether it's written in red or green ink

You kill the emotion by standardising the behaviours on court. I want authenticity. I want people to be free.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

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.

Standardization is indeed the fundamental principle of desperation: when no other solution appears possible, simply design everything the same way, so people only have to learn once. If

Standardization is indeed the fundamental principle of desperation: when no other solution appears possible, simply design everything the same way, so people only have to learn once.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

When our food and clothing and housing all are born in the complication of mass production, mass method is bound to get into our thinking and to eliminate all other thinking.

Communications must destroy localness, by a slow, inevitable process [...] Radio and television speech becomes standardized, perhaps better English than we have ever used. Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident of human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech [...] What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing.

If we internationalize everything, we end up with rules that stifle freedom and innovation.

With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.

Standardization is the fertilizer of college education. A little may be useful, but flowers do not grow in pure manure.

The essence of 5S is to follow what has been agreed on. It begins with discarding what we don't need in the gemba (seiri) and then arranging all the necessary items in the gemba in an orderly manner (seiton). Then a clean environment must be sustained so that we can readily identify abnormalities (seiso), and these three steps must be maintained on a continuous basis (shitsuke).

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.