"Question 3 Answer each of these questions in a short paragraph (about 30 words). 1. What kind of teachers did Margie and Tommy have? 2. Why did Margie’s mother send for the County Inspector? 3. What did he do? 4. Why was Margie doing badly in geography? What did the Country Inspector do to help her? 5. What had once happened to Tommy’s teacher? 6. Did Margie have regular days and hours for school? If so, why? 7. How does Tommy describe the old kind of school? 8. How does he describe the old kind of teachers?
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1.Margie and Tommy did not have any man as their Teachers. Their teachers were a kind of machine attached to their television screen.They called them their mechanical teachers.
2. Margie was not doing well in her Geography tests the mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and She was doing worse and worse in each test. That was why her mother sent for the Country Inspector.
3. The country Inspector saw that the geography sector of the mechanical teacher was geared a little too quick for Margie. So he took it apart and slowed it up to an average ten year level.
4. Margie was doing badly at geography because the geography sector of the Margie's mechanical teacher was geared a little too quick for Margie. The country inspector slowed it up to an average ten year level.
5. Tommy's teacher one day got completely blank because the history sector had blanked out completely to act it right it had to be taken away for nearly a month.
6. Yes , Margie had regular days and hours for school.Margies mechanical teacher was always on daily at the same time except Saturday and Sunday's. Her mother had fixed regular hours to study. Her mother thought that little girls learnt better if they studied at regular hours
7. Tommy says that old kind of school was a separate building away from One's house. Children from all the neighborhood went there to learn and all the children learnt same thing. They sat together. They laughed and shouted in the school.
8. Tommy says that old kind of teachers were men. They didn't live in the child’s house. They had a special building where they went to teach.All the children of the same age learn same thing. All the children went there and learnt from them.
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Answer:
1. Margie and Tommy had mechanical teachers with large black screens that flashed lessons and questions. These teachers had slots where the students had to put their homework and test papers.
2. Margie had been consistently failing to perform well in the geography tests given by her mechanical teacher. In order to find out the reason behind this, her mother sent for the County Inspector.
3. The County Inspector took apart the teacher and after examining it, assembled it again. He slowed up the geography sector of the teacher because it was 'geared up a little too quick' for an average ten-year old.
4. Margie was doing badly in geography because the geography sector of the mechanical teacher had been adjusted at a higher level.
In order to help her, the County Inspector slowed down this sector to an average ten-year level.
5. Once, Tommy’s teacher was taken away for nearly a month because its history sector had blanked out completely.
6. Yes, Margie had regular days and hours for school. The mechanical teacher always turned on at the same time every day except Saturdays and Sundays. This was because her mother believed that learning at regular hours helped little girls learn better.
7. Tommy says that the old kind of school existed 'centuries ago'. They had a teacher, who was a man. This teacher taught in a special building, where all the kids assembled and learned the same things according to their respective ages.
8. Tommy says that the teacher of the old kind were men, who taught the students inside a special building. The teachers taught the children in groups and gave them homework and asked them questions.