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This is a story about two children, Margie and Tommy. It takes place in the year 2157 and is introduced with a diary entry. Tommy found an old book from our current timeline and he and Margie are fascinated by the past. To them, the very idea of books, classrooms, human teachers was very strange. They lived in a time of robots and high technology. They weren't used to books. The only thing close to books they had were screens that made the words move, instead of them having to move their eyes. The book they found was about school. About teachers who were people, students who had to go to school, where they had to learn at the same pace. Then there is a part about Margie's experience with her school and how much she hates it. The teacher, who is a robot, kept giving her tests and her scores kept dropping. When an inspector came to check the robot, she hoped it was broken, but it wasn't. They read it for a while. However, Tommy and Margie didn't get to finish the book because Margie had to go to class. Margie asked if she could go later, but her mom was strict. All Margie could think about was the old schools and how nice it must have been.
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It is the year 2157. Margie makes a diary entry which reveals that Tommy has come across a book printed on paper. The pages of the book have turned yellow and wrinkled which proves that it existed centuries ago. The book is peculiar in the sense that it had the same words on it that it had when they read it the first time. They were not moving like that on a computer/television screen.
Tommy calls it waste because once the book is read it is of no use. Their television screen has had a million books on it and one cannot throw it away. Margie is of the same opinion but she is curious to know what the book is about. Tommy tells her that it is about school. She hated school, but now she hated it more than ever because her mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse. Her mother sends for the County Inspector who is a round little man.
He takes the television teacher apart and sets it right within an hour which only increases Margie’s disappointment. He tells her mother that it was not Margie’s fault but the geography sector of the mechanical teacher was geared a little too quick and he has slowed that to an average ten-year level. He assures Margie and her mother that there will be no problem henceforth.
Margie is curious to know about the school that existed in the past. Tommy tells her that it is not their kind of school. That is the old kind of school that they had centuries ago. The students had a human teacher who taught them and gave them homework and also asked them questions. Margie argues that a man cannot be smart enough.
Tommy further tells her that the teachers didn’t live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there. The kids of the same age learned the same thing. Now it is Margie’s school time. She goes into the schoolroom which is right next to her bedroom and the mechanical teacher is on and waiting for her. She puts her homework in the slot with a sigh.
She is still thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather’s grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. Those schools were far better than the schools of today because they offered great fun to the students.