Gulliver's Travels

why were the polotical schools less funny?

gulliver part III 9th standard

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Gulliver thinks the professors at the political school are crazy because they want their monarchs to choose their ministers (those who work in public service) to be rewarded based on merit and ability/

"In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained; the professors appearing, in my judgment, wholly out of their senses, which is a scene that never fails to make me melancholy. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the score of their wisdom, capacity, and virtue; of teaching ministers to consult the public good; of rewarding merit, great abilities, eminent services; of instructing princes to know their true interest, by placing it on the same foundation with that of their people; of choosing for employments persons qualified to exercise them, with many other wild, impossible chimeras, that never entered before into the heart of man to conceive; and confirmed in me the old observation, "that there is nothing so extravagant and irrational, which some philosophers have not maintained for truth."

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Gulliver's Travels/ Part III/ Chapter VI