For Margie, the imagination of an old school becomes what opposite of her present education?

Collective joy versus lonely machine study

The governing literary device is contrast. Margie's present education happens alone at home, where a mechanical teacher delivers lessons, gives tests and adjusts the pace according to a programmed system. The old school she imagines is different: children meet in a shared classroom, learn from a human teacher and experience the pleasure of doing things together. Thus the important opposition is not between two subjects, two speeds or two physical objects; it is between collective human enjoyment and isolated machine-based study. Option A is correct because it states both sides of the contrast. Option B refers to machine speed, option C names unrelated school subjects, and option D confuses the printed book's location with the educational idea.

This is a Class 9 English question. Chapter: The Fun They Had. Topic: the importance of human teachers.