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Neil Lindholm
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| Posted: 10 November 2013 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | 1
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It is about school in the future. In this system, all classes are taught through television and students all learn at home. Students get to decide what classes they wish to attend and teachers get paid by how many students sign up for their courses. As a result, teachers resort to tricks to get attention. One dresses up as a clown, another wears a bikini, etc. There is an older teacher who decides to teach the old-fashioned way. That's all I remember. I am thinking it was 1960's sci-fi but I can't be sure. Any ideas?
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Rich Marzullo
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| Posted: 11 November 2013 at 9:58am | IP Logged | 2
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It sounds vaguely familiar to me. Maybe a Kurt Vonnegut story?
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Bill Conway
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| Posted: 11 November 2013 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | 3
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Was that not an episode of the SUPER FRIENDS? Where society is so totally automated that no one has to go to work and Marvin can attend his classes via TV from his backyard hammock?
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Neil Lindholm
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| Posted: 11 November 2013 at 3:05pm | IP Logged | 4
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I have never watched the Super Friends so I know it can't be that. Vonnegut, huh? I probably read the story in a short story collection so it might fit.
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Brian Miller
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I have never watched the Super Friends... *************** Ye gods! Get this man a Super Friends DVD stat!
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Monte Gruhlke
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Never watched the....
<faints dead away>
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Joel Tesch
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Do NOT give him a Superfriends DVD. If you didn't watch that as a kid...uh, let's just say it doesn't hold up. :-)
And I love that this is place where somebody can ask about a fiction short story and get suggestions that it was either a Kurt Vonnegut story or an episode of the Superfriends!
Edited by Joel Tesch on 11 November 2013 at 4:31pm
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Neil Lindholm
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I grew up in a small town surrounded by mountains so Saturday morning Cartoons were something I had only heard about.
No other ideas about the story? Does anyone know another forum that specializes in this sort of question?
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Rich Marzullo
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I tried looking online for you Neil, but everything I was typing in just kept bringing up 10 million + results. I don't know of another forum offhand to direct you to. I'll do some more research on Vonnegut and see what I find. It just feels right to me, but I could be wrong.
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Rich Marzullo
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| Posted: 11 November 2013 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | 10
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Neil, try this website:
http://scifi.stackexchange.com/
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Neil Lindholm
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Will do, thanks. No hits yet but I might get lucky.
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Rich Marzullo
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Let me know if you find what you're looking for. I'm genuinely curious what story this is!
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