Short story on school of future?
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The short story 'the fun they had' written by Isaac Asimov deals with a boy and a girl, Tommy and Margie ,who find out something about school in the past time. On 17th march 2157 , Tommy, a thirteen-year-old boy, finds a' real book' which has been printed on paper is at the house of Margie. An eleven-year-old-girl they both take a look at it together. The book is really old and pages are yellow and cranky. in the year 2155, this kind of books doesn’t exist anymore. In this time words are moving on a television screen. This television contains over a million of books. That is the reason , why Tommy thinks that they are much better. He has found the old book in the attic of his house. while reading,, Tommy says that it is about school. Margie hates school and cannot understand why someone would write about it. She was having problems with learning geography from her 'mechanical teacher'. it was black, large and had a screen on it. It teaches the students, give them exercises and ask 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 was graded too quick so that her marks got worse and worse.