Quotes About Standardization

The infrastructure we provide is the same in a remote town in Africa or New York or an archipelago in Sweden: we use the same system, and the chips inside the phone are the same.

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.

Rectification Campaign, that Mao engineered in Yenan and that was designed both to indoctrinate the thousands who had flocked to Yenan and to eradicate his opponents inside the party. The long-range effect of this famous meeting was to reduce the magnificent art and culture of China, historically one of the greatest contributions to global culture ever made, to standardized, officially approved propaganda.

The only thing worth believing in is measurement.

If you found something aesthetically displeasing, like Maple Sugar Estates, then the chances were that you would find it also morally repugnant—repugnant if for no other reason than because it justified making everything the same, taking life and dragging it to its lowest common denominator.

I see the same coffee table everywhere. It's mass marketing.

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Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

Standardisation was a boon to emperors.

When the purge of teacher individualism is unrestrained, eccentricity, initiative and individuality become the casualties.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.

Standardization Is the Basis for Continuous Improvement and Quality

A brand offers a feeling of reassurance when its products are always and everywhere the same.

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

What kind of men, then, does our society need? What is the social character suited to twentieth century Capitalism? It needs men who co-operate smoothly in large groups; who want to consume more and more, and whose tasks are standardized and can easily be influenced and anticipated. It needs men who feel free and independent, not subject to any authority, or principle, or conscience - yet willing to be commanded, to do what is expected, to fit into the social machine without friction.

Contemporary society preaches this ideal of unindividualized equality because it needs human atoms, each one the same, to make them function in a mass aggregation, smoothly, without friction; all obeying the same commands, yet everybody being convinced that he is following his own desires. Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called "equality.

I don't go to Delhi malls, because malls are the same everywhere.

Science does not permit exceptions.

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

We deal right now in the educational landscape with an infatuation with the culture of one right answer that can be properly bubbled on the average multiple choice test. I am here to share with you, it is not learning.

The key idea is that product and project attributes that have economic value should be quantified using a standardized and useful unit of measure: life-cycle profit impact.

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