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 Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:30 am |
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Asimov wrote it in 1951. It discusses the educational system of the
future.
(We were assigned to read it when I was 8, but I had to read
practically to the end to understand that the story takes place in the
future. Having the date at the beginning was too succinct for me to
grasp at that age, I suppose.)
Here's the text:
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/funtheyhad.html
Some of the shortest paragraphs are erroneously run together as one -
at least, compared to my book copy. (I also think the date in the
story is wrong by 2 years.)
First 6th of the story:
Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. On the page headed
May 17, 2157, she wrote, "Today, Tommy found a real book!"
It was a very old book. Margie's grandfather once said that when he
was a little boy HIS grandfather told him that there was a time when
all stories were printed on paper.
They turned the pages, which were yellow and crinkly, and it was
awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way
they were supposed to--on a screen, you know. And then, when they
turned back to the page before, it had the same words on it that it
had had when they read it the first time.
"Gee," said Tommy, "what a waste. When you're through with the book,
you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a
million telebooks on it and it's good for plenty more. I wouldn't
throw it away."
"Same with mine," said Margie. She was eleven and hadn't seen as many
telebooks as Tommy had. He was thirteen. She said, "Where did you find
it?"
"In my house." He pointed without looking, because he was busy
reading. "In the attic."
"What's it about?"
"School."
Margie was scornful. "School? What's there to write about school? I
hate school............"
According to Wikipedia, the story was actually supposed to be
something of a satire of the strict anti-individual style of education
in the 1950s, but there are so many errors in that entry that I doubt
it. (It's barely possible, though.)
Some criticisms:
everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1467732
www.lehman.cuny.edu/deanedu/litstudies/techprojects/myclasssite2001/webroot/sum2002/povasimo2.htm
www.gs.cidsnet.de/englisch-online/klasse11/asimov_funtheyhad.htm
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