Standardized Quotes

55 quotes by 48 authors

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning. — Andy Hargreaves
The enemy is every expert who practices technocratic manipulation, the enemy is every proponent of standardization and the enemy is every victim who is so… — Tom Robbins
My first move as the manager of the machine shop was to introduce standardized work. — Taiichi Ohno
Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test. — Alfie Kohn
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for… — Alfie Kohn
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… — Irving Babbitt
I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A… — Tom Peters
Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds. — Diane Ravitch
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… — Ashley Rickards
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… — Amity Shlaes
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.… — Marcus Buckingham
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
In the enterprise, the trend is towards smaller, more powerful standardized systems where Dell is uniquely positioned. — Kevin B. Rollins
There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a… — Ronald Reagan
The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy. — James Dyson
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
The enemy of the black is not the white. The enemy of capitalist is not communist, the enemy of homosexual is not heterosexual, the enemy… — Tom Robbins
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future… — Megan McCafferty
what bothers me today is the lack of, well, i guess you'd call it authentic experience. so much is a sham. so much is artificial,… — Tom Robbins

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