One-Size-Fits-All Approach Quotes

The answer is not to standardize education, but to personalize and customize it to the needs of each child and community. There is no alternative. There never was.

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

What begins as a Utopian vision, always - always - ends in bloodshed. Because you have to force a utopia on a free people. Free people want to pursue their own happiness, but a one-size-fits-all approach requires herding the free, against their will, into the state's idea of what's right. Then it's not utopia.

If one person did one thing to be successful, that doesn't necessarily mean that's your story, too.

The factory model of education is a gargantuan bureaucracy. Some kids are good fits - I wasn't. The system gives you bad grades and tells you you're stupid. You don't think, 'If this kid's not a good fit, it could be the system's fault.'

No law is quite appropriate for all.

No person is the same, and so you can't treat each player identically.

What works in Washington, D.C. or New York City oftentimes doesn't work out in Billings, Montana, or elsewhere in the country.

Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!