Six months into the pandemic, the school tinderbox is quite ready to explode and almost all stakeholders seem underprepared
Issac Asimov’s short story “The Fun They Had” first appeared in a children’s newspaper in 1951. It is set in the year 2157, with robots having taken over education. Two children, Margie, 11, and Tommy, 13, discover a physical book for the first time. Through the book, they learn about a time, centuries ago, when books had pages, teachers were human, and school meant a community building where students went in groups and learnt the same thing at the same time. Margie, engrossed, thinks about the fun those kids must have had in the old days. The short is the …
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