Quotes About Standardization

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

Yet in a country with one hundred types of toothpaste on supermarket shelves, schools still follow a one-size-fits-all educational model.

Obamacare imposed an unprecedented level of regulation and standardization on individual-market health insurance all across America. This has left many consumers in an intolerable predicament - in some cases, having to spend up to a third or even half of their income on premiums and deductibles before insurance kicks in.

My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work.

The world is the same everywhere.

When you're a corporation, you're going to stick with what works. That's why every McDonald's is the same.

As goods become more standardized - and mass production has that effect, standardizing product - the distinguishing factor between one store and another is going to be how skillful stores are in satisfying customers and making it a pleasant experience instead of a hostile experience.

I wanted all my stores to be the same, to offer the same customer experience, whether I was there or not.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.

Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!

Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to be "Model T," and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

But though the parts of language are standardized and in a sense mass-produced, they achieve the maximum of variety, individuality, and autonomy. No technology has yet approached this degree of refinement: the intricate mechanisms of the so-called Nuclear Age are extremely primitive in comparison, for they can utilize and express only a narrow segment of the human personality divorced from its total historic expression.

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

Process standardization from on high is disempowerment. It is a direct result of fearful management, allergic to failure.

Blank minds think alike.

The people of each country get more like the people of every other country. They have no character, no beauty, no ideals, no culture-nothing, nothing."… "Everything's getting gray, and it'll be grayer.

Science does not permit exceptions.

I hate your city. It has standardized all the beauty out of life. It is one big railroad station -- with all the people taking tickets for the best cemeteries.

What I fight in Zenith is the standardization of thought, and, of course, the traditions of competition. The real villains of the piece are the clean, kind, industrious Family Men who use every known brand of trickery and cruelty to insure the prosperity of their cubs. The worst thing about these fellows is that they're so good and, in their work at least, so intelligent. You can't hate them properly, and yet their standardized minds are the enemy.

TV has made everyone so vanilla it's nearly impossible to tell one anchor apart from another.

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.

In the 1960s, the public demanded seat belts in cars, but automakers balked. Not until government intervened did seat belts become standard equipment. Now, no one would consider buying a vehicle without this basic safety feature.