Answer:
1.Who are Margie and Tommy? How old are they?
Margie and Tommy are students from the year 2157. Tommy is a thirteen-year-
old boy and Margie is an eleven-year-old girl. Both are neighbours and good
friends who like to spend time together like children of their age usually do.
2.Why had Margie started hating her school?
Margie never liked school. But lately she had come to hate it more than ever
because of her poor performance in geography. The mechanical teacher had
been giving her test after test in the subject and she had been doing worse and
worse.
3.Who was the County Inspector? What did he do to improve Margie’s
performance?
The County Inspector was a technical expert who identified and rectified errors
in the functioning of the mechanical teachers. When the County Inspector
examined the working of Margie’s mechanical teacher, he found that the
geography sector had been geared too quick. He slowed it up to an average 10-
years level. He found the overall pattern of Margie quite satisfactory.
4.What things about the book did Margie and Tommy find strange?
The real book was at least two hundred years old , so the pages had turned
yellow and crinkly. Margie and Tommy read telebooks where words moved on
a screen. Books were stored in a machine that could store a million books on it
and still be good for plenty more. So they found it strange that the words in the
printed book remained fixed unlike the moving ones on their television screen.
5.What does Tommy tell Margie about the old kind of school? Why did
Margie think that children in olden days had fun while studying in school?
Tommy describes the old school as a special building where all the children
went to study together. Students of the same age-group were taught the same
things which by human teachers. On the other hand, Margie attended a tele-
school, which was just a machine in the room next to her bedroom and she
studied alone unlike the students of the schools in the bygone times. She found
her present school much too mechanical, boring, monotonous and demanding,
and she hated it. She felt that learning was more fun in those days because
hundreds of children had the opportunity of congregating and studying together
with the help of human teachers and printed books. Schools were large
buildings where students learned the same things, so they could help one
another with the homework and talk about it.
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