Beyond these laws we need standards of all kinds. We need health standards to keep us from getting sick and to tell us when we are sick so we can do something about it. We have aesthetic standards because we all recognize that not all art is good art. Only the most desperate sentimentalist would suggest that somehow standards should be done away with. If everything is accounted art, there is no art.
Art depends upon discrimination as well as imagination.
We need educational standards to set goals for learning and so that teacher and students may discern whether anyone is learning anything. There are successful marriages and failed marriages. And the terms are not arbitrary. Failure and success are real. We have standards of acceptability.