[293] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: achieving diversity at MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sourav K. Mandal)
Sat Apr 28 16:11:36 2001
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From: "Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:11:11 -0400
""Jimmy_B,MajMoola,MechWarrior,etc._Chien-ta Wu" <jimmbswu@MIT.EDU>"
wrote:
> It appears that many people here believe in the intrinsic educational value
> of
> some sort of diversity.
I don't, if you mean racial/ethnic diversity -- there is much more
diversity of thought within any given racial or ethnic group than there
is between such groups. If a school admits the best of the best
without any consideration toward metaphysically meaningless criteria
like race, the real diversity -- diversity of _thought_ (music, art,
science, etc.) -- will take care of itself.
Perhaps I am naive to think people would care about such things.
Sourav
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