In the story The fun They Had by Isaac Asimov why did Margie ask Tommy would anyone write about school?

In Isaac Asimov's short story "The Fun They Had," Margie asks Tommy if anyone would write about school because she finds the concept of a physical school building and a teacher teaching multiple children at once utterly foreign and strange.

Margie has only ever known the experience of learning individually through a mechanical teacher in her own home. The idea of a shared classroom filled with other students seems almost ludicrous to her. She's curious about the past, and Tommy, having read a book about a school from the "old days," is able to paint a picture of something radically different.

This question highlights the story's key theme: the contrast between the personalized, technologically-driven education of Margie's time and the more communal, human-centered approach of the past. Margie's question reflects her sense of wonder and her growing awareness that her current reality is just one possibility, and there are other ways of learning and experiencing the world.