How did the discovery of the printed books leave margie and tommy awestruck?(150-200 words)
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Tommy finds a ‘real book’ which has been printed on paper in the attic of his house. He shows the book to Margie. Together, they both take a look at it. The book is really old and the pages are yellow and crinkly. In the year 2157, this kind of books doesn’t exist anymore. In this time, words are moving on a television screen. This television contains over a million books. That is the reason, Tommy thinks that they are much better. Margie inquires what’s it about. Tommy says that it is about school. Margie hates school and cannot understand why someone would write about it. She is having problems with learning geography from her ‘mechanical teacher’. It is black, large and has a screen on it. It teaches the students, gives them exercises and asks them questions, all in a special room in their own house. It can also calculate the marks in no times. Margie hates the slot where she has to insert her homework or test papers. Once the geography sector of her mechanical teacher has geared too quick so that her marks are getting worse and worse.
The County Inspector slows it after one hour. He is really nice to Margie. She hopes that her mechanical teacher would be away for a long time. Tommy says that the book which he has found, is not about their type of school, it is about school centuries ago. They find out that students back then had a man as a teacher who taught the girls and boys, gave them homework and asked them the question. They had a special building. And they learned the same thing if they were of the same age.
At first, Margie does not understand how a person could be a teacher and how the students were taught the same thing because her mother says that education must fit each child’s mind, but these schools are funny and she wants to read more about it. Then it is time for Margie and Tommy for their school. Margie goes to the schoolroom in her house, where the mechanical teacher stands. It is already on because the lessons are always at regular hours. She was thinking about the old school system and how much fun the children must have, learning and spending time together