The school (Isaac Asimov)

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Isaac Asimov (1965)

The school (also the fun they had , Original title: The Fun They Had ) is an approximately 3-page science fiction - short story by Isaac Asimov in 1954, which tells of two children in 2157, which is an old , speak book found on the memory. This describes how children used to go to school and learn together there, guided by human teachers.

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It is May 17, 2157. Tommy, a 13-year-old, has found an ancient book in the attic and shows it to the 11-year-old girl next door, Margie. Her grandfather had once told her that his grandfather had once assured him that in the past there were only stories printed on paper in books, and not only on screens as they are today.

While Tommy Margie explains what the book says - that a "school" used to be a place where human teachers taught groups of children in a classroom - he also makes fun of their ignorance on the subject. Neither of them know a school, just a small “classroom” next to the children's room, in which each child is taught by a “mechanical teacher”, a screen machine that is precisely adjusted to the individual child's abilities. Margie begs Tommy to read the book too.

While Margie slips her homework into the slot provided by her mechanical teacher, she imagines what it would be like to be able to play together with many children in school, laugh and learn together in a large room and be able to help each other : "She was thinking about the fun they had".

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Asimov described the interest in The Fun They Had as "probably the biggest surprise of my literary career". At the request of a personal friend, he wrote this very brief story for a boys and girls magazine and thought he would never hear about it again. But then it was printed in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , and over the next several years Asimov received more than 30 requests for reprint , including use in textbooks.

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  • English: The Fun They Had , in The Best of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1972 , Sphere Science Fiction, London (1977), Ed. Angus Wells
  • German: The School , in Isaac Asimov: Beloved Robot , Heyne Verlag (1966)

Evidence and explanations

  1. ↑ For example: "They thought about the fun they had [had]."
  2. ↑ a b Isaac Asimov: The Fun They Had , in The Best of Isaac Asimov, 1954–1972 , Sphere Science Fiction, London (1977), Ed. Angus Wells, pp. 9-10.
  3. ↑ Smart English 6 Wt '2008 Ed. . Rex Bookstore, Inc. ,, ISBN 978-971-23-4949-2 , p. 213.
  4. ↑ Delphine Chartier: De la grammaire pour traduire . Presses Univ. du Mirail, 2006, ISBN 978-2-85816-824-8 , p. 216.