Why does the old school seem ideal for future education in the story?

Correct answer: Because it gave the experience of learning together with a human teacher

The old school appears ideal not because it was free from study, but because it combined learning with human and social experience. Children met one another, learned in the same place, responded to a teacher and shared ordinary activities. Margie, who studies alone with a mechanical teacher, imagines that this community would make education more enjoyable and meaningful. Option A is therefore correct. Options B and D contradict the description, while option C reverses the contrast: machines dominate Margie's future education, whereas the old school depends on people. The story presents this ideal through Margie's hopeful imagination, not as a claim that every old school was perfect.