Why does future education seem emotionally poor in the story?

Correct answer: It lacks living teacher and classmate relationships

The governing concept is the social and emotional dimension of education. Margie receives lessons at home from a mechanical teacher, and her progress is measured through programmed tests. This arrangement may be efficient, but it gives her no ordinary classroom, no living teacher with whom she can communicate, and no classmates with whom she can share discovery or friendship. Her curiosity about the old school reveals what the modern system lacks rather than what it possesses. Option A is correct. B is false because the story mentions a printed book as a source of wonder; C is false because a machine is central to her education; and D is false because she does receive regular lessons.