School today has its good and bad sides. Sometimes you are completely stressed, do not want to go to school and wish there was no school. You have to sit there many hours, listening to the teachers and learn things you never wanted to know. Perhaps there are people in your class you can’t stand or you have problems with the teachers. So if you want, you can regard school as a bad thing. But there are many things compensating all this and making your workday in school more bearable. While having fun with your friends, while beginning to work independently and to have the feeling of being successful and seeing you understand something, while having a funny lesson with a good-humored teacher, you can see that school is not a punishment. If I imagine that the children in the future do not have all those experiences, I think something very important will be missing in their life, because school is also the social education that children need. So I hope school will exist in the future as today. (M.G. 11d, 2005)

I think Isaac Asimov wants to say that we pupils in the present should be satisfied. Most of the children hate school and do not want to go. They bleat that they have to wake up early in the morning etc. But Asimov wants to show that this is a good system, because we have contact with other kids, in the breaks we can talk to each other and we have fun with them. In the story Margie thinks our whole school life is fun.

An individual teacher for each child - no matter whether he is human or a mechanical – can work better and imore intensively with the pupil and when the parents set the school time, a child can start school later whenever there was an important event the day before. Moreover the pupil is not so tired if school does not begin too early. If the school(room) is at home, the children do not have to walk or drive so far and this saves time and money. But on the other hand on our way to school we meet new people and make new friends, which is very important for a child – and also for adults. And the school we know promotes social contacts, the pupils solve problems together – very important for the later life and the development of a child. And a human teacher is definitely a better educator than a machine because he knows the problems of humans and children. A machine will never be able to feel like a human.

So in my opinion our school system is good and better than in Asimov’s vision – although I sometimes say "I hate school", but everybody certainly does that sometimes. And it seems Isaac Asimov thought that too, because I think there is some sarcasm in the sentence "Margie was thinking about how the kids must have loved it". I think I would find it very boring, if I had to learn alone with a private teacher and I think most children would agree with me. At first glance the option in the story seems to be sensible – you do not have a long school way, you have your own teacher who only cares about you – but the essence of the story shows that the school we know is much better and not as bad as we pupils always think.   (H.B., 11d)

With his short story "The Fun They Had" Isaac Asimov depicts the school system in 2157 and the difficulties of it.
A 13-year-old boy named Tommy has found an old book about school in former times in his house. He and the 11-year-old girl Margie are both surprised by seeing words which not move like they are used to on computers. Tommy tells her that formerly many children went to one school where they were taught by a man or woman and learned the same things at the same age and not individually like they now do with a computer teacher at home. Margie, who does not like school, enjoys the idea of that old-fashioned school because her computer teacher is too difficult for her. While she is thinking about the fun they had she has to do an arithmetic lesson.

Isaac Asimov depicts a school system which is independent of human teacher and based on technical advance. The main advantage is the individual teaching which can train the personal talents. In this system there are no human mistakes and it is a perfect way to give every child the same knowledge and information. But there are some disadvantages, too. Human pupils do not learn like a computer. I think learning has to be a kind of fun, otherwise the probability of forgetting is higher. Studies have come to the result that you can learn things better if you have fun while you are learning. Another disadvantage is that there are no social relationships like at school today. If a child lives in a neighborhood with no other children it is alone and has no social relationships which other children. Learning with friends at school can be a motivation. At schools today the pupils improve their communication and their behavior in a group. In Asimov´s future vision there are no human teachers who can give moral values to the children. Giving moral values is the duty of their parents, because a mechanical teacher cannot give moral values.