There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden. . . The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.
To be ignorant or unconvinced of one's own needs has become the unforgivable anti-social act. The good citizen is one who imputes standardized needs to himself with such conviction that he drowns out any desire for alternatives, much less the renunciation of need.
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.
We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.
The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
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.
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
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.
Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will just be one more variation that is occasionally used and mostly ignored. One must standardize, and thus stabilize the process, before continuous improvement can be made.
