How did Tommy feel about the idea of a human teacher in the story?

Correct answer: Strange

The governing concept is the contrast between the futuristic mechanical system and the old human-led school. Tommy is accustomed to children studying separately at home with mechanical teachers, so the idea of a teacher who is a living person and a classroom where many children learn together seems unfamiliar to him. When he reads about the old school, he reacts by calling the arrangement strange. Therefore option C is correct. Option A is the opposite of his reaction, and B is not the feeling stated in the story. Option D invents a false explanation because the old school did have children; in fact, their presence is one of the features that makes the system unusual to Tommy.