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1、所谓的光辉岁月,并不是以后,闪耀的日子,而是无人问津时,你对梦想的偏执。The Fun They HadIsaac AsimovMargie 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. Margies grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him
2、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
3、 the same words on it that it had had when they read it the first time.Gee, said Tommy, what a waste. When youre through with the book, you just throw it away, I guess. Our television screen must have had a million books on it and its good for plenty more. I wouldnt throw it away.Same with mine, sai
4、d Margie. She was eleven and hadnt 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. Whats it about? School.Margie was scornful. School? Whats there to write about school? I hate s
5、chool.Margie always hated school, but now she hated it more than ever. The mechanical teacher had been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and worse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the County Inspector.He was a round little man with a re
6、d face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. He smiled at Margie and gave her an apple, then took the teacher apart. Margie had hoped he wouldnt know how to put it together again, but he knew how all right, and, after an hour or so, there it was again, large and black and ugly, with a big s
7、creen on which all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked. That wasnt so bad. The part Margie hated most was the slotwhere she had to put homework and test papers. She always had to write them out in a punch code they made her learn when she was six years old, and the mechanical teacher
8、 calculated the mark in no time.The Inspector had smiled after he was finished and patted Margies head. He said to her mother, Its not the little girls fault, Mrs. Jones. I think the geography sector was geared a little too quick. Those things happen sometimes. Ive slowed it up to an average ten-yea
9、r level. Actually, the over-all pattern of her progress is quite satisfactory. And he patted Margies head again.Margie was disappointed. She had been hoping they would take the teacher away altogether. They had once taken Tommys teacher away for nearly a month because the history sector had blanked
10、out completely.So she said to Tommy, Why would anyone write about school?Tommy looked at her with very superior eyes. Because its not our kind of school, stupid. This is the old kind of school that they had hundreds and hundreds of years ago. Headded loftily, pronouncing the word carefully, Centurie
11、s ago.Margie was hurt. Well, I dont know what kind of school they had all that time ago. She read the book over his shoulder for a while, then said, Anyway, they had a teacher.Sure they had a teacher, but it wasnt a regular teacher. It was a man. A man? How could a man be a teacher? Well, he just to
12、ld the boys and girls things and gave them homework and asked them questions. A man isnt smart enough. Sure he is. My father knows as much as my teacher. He cant. A man cant know as much as a teacher. He knows almost as much, I betcha.Margie wasnt prepared to dispute that. She said, 1 wouldnt want a
13、 strange man in my house to teach me.Tommy screamed with laughter. You dont know much, Margie. The teachers didnt live in the house. They had a special building and all the kids went there. And all the kids learned the same thing? Sure, if they were the same age.But my mother says a teacher has to b
14、e adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently.Just the same they didnt do it that way then. If you dont like it, you dont have to read the book.I didnt say I didnt like it, Margie said quickly. She wanted to read about those funny schools.T
15、hey werent even half-finished when Margies mother called, Margie! School! Margie looked up. Not yet, Mamma.Now! said Mrs. Jones. And its probably time forTommy, too.Margie said to Tommy, Can I read the book some more with you after school?Maybe, he said nonchalantly. He walked away whistling, the du
16、sty old book tucked beneath his arm.Margie went into the schoolroom. It was right next to her bedroom, and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. It was always on at the same time every day exceptSaturday and Sunday, because her mother said little girls learned better if they learned at
17、regular hours.The screen was lit up, and it said: Todays arithmetic lesson is on the addition of proper fractions. Please insert yesterdays homework in the proper slot.Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfathers grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things, so they could help one another on
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