17.他们那时候多有趣啊

They were so much fun back then

1. that night, Maggie even wrote about it in her diary.

2．On the page of May 17, 2155, she wrote, "Today, Tomi found a real book!" 3．

3．It was a very old book.

4．Maki's grandfather once told her that when he was a little boy, his grandfather told him that there was a time when all the stories were printed on paper.

5．Maki and Tomi turned the pages of the book, which were yellowed and crumpled.

6．The words they read all stood still, unlike what they usually saw on the fluorescent screen, moving in sequence. It's really interesting, don't you think?

7．Read to the back and then turn back to the previous page and the words they had just read were still in place.

8．Maki asked, "Where did you find this book?"

9．"In our house," Tomi pointed out, but did not look up, because he was concentrating on the book. "It's on the top floor."

10．He said again. "What's in the book?"

11．"School."

12．A look of contempt and disdain appeared on Maggie's face: "School? What's there to write about school?

13．I hate school."

14．Maki had always hated school and hated it now more than ever.

15．The machine teacher gave her the geography test over and over again, and she got worse answers than ever.

16．Finally her mother shook her head sadly and brought in the teaching inspector.

17．After the inspector adjusted the machine, patted her head, smiled and said to her mother: "It's not the little girl's fault, Mrs. Jones.

18. I think it is the geographic part of the machine is adjusted too fast, this kind of thing is often.

19．I have slowed it down to the level of a ten-year-old. To be honest, her total learning is satisfactory enough."

20．With that, he patted Maggie's head again.

21．Maki was so disappointed that she had hoped they would take the robot teacher away.

22．They once moved Tomi's teacher away for almost a month because the history part of the device was not showing images at all.

23．So she said to Tomi, "How can anyone write about school?"

24．Tommy gave her a very condescending look: "Because it's not our type of school, silly, it's the old-fashioned kind from hundreds of years ago."

25．Then he said, word for word, "Centuries ago."

26．Maggie was sad.

27．"Well, I don't know what kind of schools they had on in ancient times."

28．She looked at the book from behind his shoulder for a moment and said, "Anyway, they had to have a teacher, right?"

29．"Of course, they had a teacher, not a teacher like us.

30．It's a real person!"

31．"A real person? How can a real person be a teacher?"

32．"Well, he just teaches the children, gives them homework, and asks questions."

33．"A real person is not that smart."

34．"Of course he's smart. My dad knows as much as my robot teacher."

35．Without wanting to argue, Maggie said, "I don't want a stranger coming to my house to teach me my homework."

36．Tommy laughed loudly and pointedly. "You don't know too much, Maggie. Those teachers don't come to your house to teach.

37．They have a special place where all the children go to school."

38．"Do all the children learn the same lessons?"

39．"That's of course, if they are the same age."

40．"But my mother says that a teacher needs to be adjusted so that he can fit the intelligence of each child he teaches.

41．Also, the teaching method should be different for each child."

42．"They didn't happen to do that at that time.

43．If you don't like the things the book says, you should simply not read the book."

44．"I didn't say I didn't like it."

45．Maggie said hastily.

46．She was curious to know what all the fun school was about.

47．They hadn't finished reading half of it when Madge's mother shouted, "Madge! It's time for class!"

48．Maki sighed and went to class.

49．She still had it in her head that when her grandfather's grandfather was a little boy, they went to the old-fashioned school.

50．All the children in the neighborhood went to school in one place, they laughed and shouted in the schoolyard, they sat in class together; after the day's lessons, they went home together.

51．They all learn the same homework, so they can help each other when they do their homework and discuss their problems with each other.

52．And their teachers are real people ......

53．The machine teacher is showing the words on the screen: "Let's add the fractions ½ and ¼ together──"

54．Maggie was thinking how much those children must have loved their school in the old days.

55．She thought, "What fun they had then!