Wednesday, July 10, 2013

“I BELIEVE IN STANDARDIZING AUTOMOBILES. I DO NOT BELIEVE IN STANDARDIZING HUMAN BEINGS.” — Albert Einstein

From The Saturday Evening Post, reblogged by Diane Ravitch | http://bit.ly/MC1riO

       “Standardization robs life of its spice. To deprive every ethnic group of its special traditions is to convert the world into a huge Ford plant. I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture. . . . Such men [as Henry Ford} do not always realize that the adoration which they receive is not a tribute to their personality but to their power or their pocketbook. “

—— Albert Einstein, Saturday Evening Post interview, 10/26/1929

“What Life Means to Einstein,” by George Sylvester Viereck. Published October 26, 1929 [PDF].

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