How does the private form of Margie's education affect her personality?

Correct answer: She appears curious and dissatisfied with private learning and longs for collective experience

Margie’s education takes place alone at home, in front of a mechanical teacher, and this arrangement shapes her emotional response to learning. Although she receives individualized lessons, she has no classmates with whom she can share activities, compare answers or enjoy ordinary school experiences. When Tommy describes children studying together in old schools, Margie becomes curious and begins to imagine that such schools were more enjoyable. Her reaction shows dissatisfaction with isolation rather than rejection of education itself. Therefore option A is correct: private learning makes her long for collective experience. She does not become free from study, she does not become a teacher, and she continues to speak with Tommy, so options B, C and D contradict the story.