"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"
- Harvey Cushing
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This quote by Harvey Cushing talks to the potential threats of standardizing our instructional systems. He suggests that by doing so, we run the risk of stifling uniqueness and inevitably defeating the purpose of education. He indicates that standardization has the prospective to limit the growth of trainees, as opposed to assisting them reach their complete capacity. Cushing's words suggest that standardization can cause a homogenized instructional system, where trainees are not urged to assume for themselves or discover their private interests. He implies that this can cause a lack of creativity as well as technology, as well as inevitably a reduced top quality of education. Cushing's words function as an advising to those who seek to standardize our instructional systems, and also advise us of the importance of fostering individuality and creativity in our pupils.
This quote is written / told by Harvey Cushing between April 8, 1869 and October 7, 1939. He/she was a famous Scientist from USA.
The author also have 4 other quotes.
"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories"
