Why does old education seem attractive to Margie in the absence of a human teacher?

Because it had company, conversation, and the teacher's presence

The governing idea is the human and social character of learning. Margie studies alone with a mechanical teacher, so her lessons feel private, repetitive, and emotionally empty. After Tommy explains that children once learned together in a school building from a human teacher, she imagines the companionship, conversation, and shared classroom experience that her own education lacks. Option B is therefore correct. Option A is false because old schools involved regular study; option C reverses the contrast, since machines belong to Margie’s time; and option D is unsupported because the old system did not mean that examinations never existed. Her attraction is caused by human presence, not by oldness alone.

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