The Standards Movement and The Emperor's New Clothes

Abstract

Then a small voice called out from the crowd, "But the emperor's not wearing new standards at all; he's wearing old objectives!" According to a classic but uncorroborated fairy tale, a ruler can be per suaded to parade around in the buff if he's made to believe he is wear ing wonderful but invisible garments. The moral of the fable, of course, is that a ruler is not apt to redress his state of undress unless some one forcefully informs him he's naked as a jaybird.