Why does technology make children’s curiosity move toward the past?

Correct answer: Because the old book and old schools differ from their experience

The governing concept is curiosity produced by contrast between familiar experience and an unfamiliar past. Tommy and Margie live in a future where telebooks and mechanical teachers are normal. When Tommy finds a printed book describing children who studied together in a school building, its pages, fixed words, and social setting seem strange to them. Because the old educational world differs sharply from their technological routine, they want to learn how it worked. Thus option C is correct. Option A is false because machines are central to their future. Option B is the opposite of their experience, and option D is false because both children can read and understand the book’s significance.