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• Margie


  The main character, an 11-year-old girl
• Mechanical teacher

  The automated teacher that Margie and Tommy have in their homes
• County Inspector


  A person who comes to check on and adjust the mechanical teacher
• Margie hated school and was doing poorly in geography tests
• The County Inspector adjusted the mechanical teacher to an average 10-year-old level
• Tommy found an old book about the "old kind of school" from hundreds of years ago
• Old schools


  Schools where there was a human teacher, not a mechanical one, and all the children from the neighborhood learned together
• Margie was curious and wanted to read more about the old schools
• Margie had to go to her own mechanical school lesson when her mother called her
• The mechanical teacher was waiting for Margie to insert her homework from the previous day
• Margie was thinking about how much fun the kids must have had in the old schools, compared to her own isolated mechanical schooling