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CH The Fun They Had
CH The Fun They Had
SUBJECT:- ENGLISH
CLASS:- IX
THE FUN THEY HAD by ISAAC ASIMOV
SCHOOLS OF FUTURE
MOVING E-TEXT
ROBOTIC TEACHER
A ABOUT THE
AUTHOR
A
Isaac Asimov was born on 02 January 1920 in Petrovichi (Russia). He
immigrated with his family to the United States and became a bio-
chemistry professor while pursuing writing. He published his first novel,
Pebble in the Sky, in 1950. An immensely prolific author who penned nearly
500 books, he published influential sci-fi works like I, Robot and the
Foundation trilogy, as well as books in a variety of other genres. He died
Jones, whose neighbour Tommy finds a real book in the attic of his house. Isaac
based on technical advance. In this system there are no human mistakes and it
is a perfect way to give every child the same knowledge and information as per
his level. But there are some disadvantages too. Human pupils do not learn like
forgetting is higher. Studies have come to the result that you can learn things
future vision, there are no human teachers who can give moral
moral values.
CONTINUES…..
The story opens with Margie writing in her diary about an old book that Tommy had
found. Margie was reminded of her grandfather who had once talked about his
grandfather who went to an actual school where the students were taught by human
teachers. Tommy was thirteen years old and Margie was of eleven. They found many
strange things in the book. One of the strangest things was that after reading the
However, Margie and Tommy lived in the future world, in the year 2157 where
education was completely computerized. They did not go to schools. Instead, they
had a special study room where a computer taught them. The computer teacher
was programmed and adjusted according to the needs of each child.
The pages of the book they found were yellow and crinkly. Margie and Tommy
found it funny to read the words that didn’t move like they moved on the screen.
When they turned back to the page before, it still had the same words on it.
SUMMARY……
Margie hated school. She was having problems with learning Geography from her
'mechanical teacher’. It was black, large and ugly with a big screen on which all the
lessons were shown and questions were asked, all in a special room in their own
house. It could also calculate the marks in no time. Margie hated the slot where
she had 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.
The county inspector rebuilt it in one hour.
Both Tommy and Margie wondered at the book found. Margie also wondered how
much fun it would be studying in a school. Studying in a fun way, with other children
and that too from a human teacher who gave them homework and asked
questions. They had a special building, where the children went to study and they
learned the same thing if they were the same age.
The author’s message is one of warning against the dangers of computerized
homeschooling which will deprive children of the benefits of the personal
interactions between students and teachers, which help them develop social skills.
N ow a fe w q u e s t i o n s …