Você pode estar pensando em "A diversão que eles tinham" , um conto de 1951 de Isaac Asimov , que também foi a resposta para esta velha questão e este e este e parte da resposta a esta . Foi reimpresso em muitos lugares , incluindo Revista de Fantasia e Ficção Científica , fevereiro de 1954 , disponível no Arquivo da Internet . A história tem sua própria página da Wikipédia , e o texto está disponível aqui .
O A.I. estava no quarto da criança, que só tinha que aprender com ela por algumas horas por dia, e então podia ir brincar com os outros garotos da vizinhança. Substituiu completamente a escola tradicional - todos tinham um.
Margie went into the schoolroom. It was right next to her bedroom, and the mechanical teacher was on and waiting for her. It was always on at the same time every day except Saturday and Sunday, because her mother said little girls learned better if they learned at regular hours.
The screen was lit up, and it said: "Today's arithmetic lesson is on the addition of proper fractions. Please insert yesterday's homework in the proper slot."
Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather's grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighborhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things so they could help one another on the homework and talk about it.
And the teachers were people. . . .
Acho que aprendemos o estilo de aprendizado da criança para ensiná-los melhor.
"And all the kids learned the same thing?"
"Sure, if they were the same age."
"But my mother says a teacher has to be adjusted to fit the mind of each boy and girl it teaches and that each kid has to be taught differently."