The Fun they Had Class 9 Summary in English - Online Narayan

 The Fun they Had Class 9 Summary in English

A Theme of the Story 

The present story unfolds the picture of future schools where the mechanical teacher will teach the students and books will be meaningless. Actually, the students will learn only from the e-books and the class tests will be conducted online. The internet will have wide applications and the subject like history and geography will be no more difficult for the students. They will be no more difficult for the students. They will get the hard books only kept in the library, of course, this future school will be quite different from our present school and the old school.

Short summary

Introduction: This story deals with a boy and a girl, Tommy and Margie. They find out something about the school of the past. On 17th May 2157, Tommy, a thirteen-year-old boy, finds a 'real book' in the attic which has been printed on paper. Tommy and Margie both take a look at it.

The Real Book: The book is really old and the pages are yellow and crinkly. In the year 2157, this kind of books will not exist any more. At that time words will move on a TV screen. These TVs can contain over a million books. That is why Tommy thinks that they are much better than the old school

Margie's hatred for school: He says that the book is about school. But Margie hates school and she does not understand why someone would write about it. She is having problems with learning geography from her 'mechanical teacher'. It is black, large and has a screen on it. It teaches the students, gives them exercises and asks them questions. It works from in a special room in her own house. It can also calculate the marks in no time. Margie hates the slot where she has to insert her homework and the test papers. Once the geography sector of the mechanical teacher was too quick, so she got worse marks than before. The country inspector rebuilt it after one hour. He was nice to Margie. She hoped that her mechanical teacher would be taken would be taken away for a long time like Tommy's His history's sector blanked out completely.

Tommy's opinion about the book: Tommy says that the books he has found are not about their type of school. Actually, it is about their type of school of the centuries ago. He finds that students in the past had a real man as a teacher who taught the boys and girls. He gave them homework and asked them questions. They had a special building and all the children went to school. All of them learned the same thing.

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Margie's opinion about the old school: First, Margie could not understand how a real man could be a teacher nor could she understand how every student was taught the same thing. Her mother says that education must fit each child's mind. But in her opinion, those schools were funny and she wants to read more about them. Now it is time for Margie and Tommy for their School, Margie goes into the school room in her house, where the mechanical teacher stands. It is already waiting because the lessons are always at the regular house. She thinks about the old schools and the fun the students had in them.