Pros: In most standard classroom settings, a populace of students are presented a series of data, and required to comprehend and find application to aforementioned data. In cases that affirmative action fights for, it simply lets the students speak for themselves based on already lived, real-life applications. These additives to diversity can lend great amounts of knowledge into any discussion, and provides many with other viewpoints for overall considerations for any given topic of conversation. ‘…what some students say in random conversations in and outside campus classrooms might be so insightful, and so unlikely and difficult to be learned in any other way besides these random conversations, that it is worth denying admission to some white and Asian American students because of their race so that other white and Asian American students might …show more content…
But, on this basis alone, should we grant promoted access to minorities and other such students, purely because of the possibility to gain vantage points? Cons: If we are required to grant access to ‘left-field’ students, is there any guarantee of additional payoff. ‘…in my opinion these variables are less relevant than the fact that on the margin the black Harvard alum will make so much more difference to the world than the white Harvard alum.’ - Jennifer Hochschild. A statement as bluntly severe as this simply cannot be for any person to assume. No individual is to know whether or not they can be of more use to the world than another; that is a bare-boned fact, it goes against our very ideology that we are all created equal. Along these same lines, we could compare the system to that of the should be forgotten ‘No Child