The story is about
the year 2157, when every child has his own machine-teacher and schools do not exist anymore. In that year the 13 y.o. Tommy finds an old
book. He and Margie, who is eleven, find it strange that the words on paper do
not move after having been read. In their time they only read stories on the computer
screen. The book they have found is about school, centuries ago. Margie is very surprised that in
the past pupils had a real person as a teacher and that all children of the same age
learnt the same thing and went to a school together with other children. Margie
wants to read more of the book, but first she has to learn with her machine-teacher, whose level is too advanced for her, and she thinks school in those days
was much better than today.
