The Fun They Had & The Road Not Taken

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The story is set in the year 2157. Tommy discovers a real book made of paper in his attic, which is unusual because in their time, all books are electronic and displayed on screens.

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In 2157: Schools are at home with mechanical teachers, individual learning, adjustable difficulty levels, and telebooks on screens. In the old days: Schools were buildings where all children gathered,…

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Margie hates her mechanical teacher because it gives her difficult geography tests that she fails repeatedly. She especially dislikes the slot where she puts homework written in punch code. She was di…

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The County Inspector examines the mechanical teacher with his tools, dials, and wires. He discovers that the geography sector was set too fast for Margie's level and adjusts it to an average ten-year …

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Margie is fascinated by the idea that children from the whole neighborhood came together, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together, learning the same things, helping each other with h…

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Telebooks are electronic books displayed on television or computer screens. Tommy mentions that their TV screen contains millions of books and won't be thrown away like the paper book, making them mor…

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The main theme is the importance of human interaction and community in education. It's developed through Margie's fascination with old schools where children learned together, contrasted with her isol…

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The speaker came to a point where two paths separated in a forest during autumn (yellow wood suggests fall). This literally describes a fork in the road, but symbolically represents a moment of choice…