American conservative William F. Buckley once said that he'd rather be governed by the first 2000 names in the Boston phonebook than the 2000 faculty members of Harvard. (Somewhat ironic, coming from a guy who went to Yale and then founded an intellectually rigorous journal.) But our point is, Orwell might have agreed: in Animal Farm pigs take control because they're the smartest animals on the farm and then turn right around and start abusing that power.
But you can't just blame the eggheads. The pigs would never have succeeded if they other animals hadn't blindly gone along with it. Moral of the story: you don't need to go to Yale, but you do need to form some opinions of your own.
Answer:
B) The scholars at Jundi Shapur were interested in various disciplines
Explanation:
.B is the best answer because it most accurately shows an inference from the passage. We know that the scholars were interested in various disciplines because it says, "The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine observatory to track the heavens." This shows that the scholars studied everything from medicine to astrology. Option A is incorrect because the passage does not indicate that any of the academics had been persecuted. Option C is wrong because the passage says nothing of the scholars' genders. Option D is wrong because it does not include all of the cultures of the scholars that are talked about in the passage.