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)

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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