"Things were different from a hundred years ago. With all the inventions in the Muggle world, wizards needed to better understand Muggle things if they wanted to hide themselves more effectively."
When Draco failed to answer his question, Shen Fei did not press him further and simply continued the lesson.
"I assume you all know what this is." Shen Fei took out a camera. Cameras also existed in the Wizarding World, so the students present were fairly familiar with one.
"This item was first invented in the Muggle world." Shen Fei was not lying. There was no way he could make that up. All technological items in the Wizarding World had been invented by Muggles and then improved with magic.
"Also, the train you took to Hogwarts was first invented in the Muggle world before Hogwarts' earlier professors modified it. Muggles may not be able to use magic, but that does not mean they are all foolish." As Shen Fei spoke, he waved his Wand. A sheet of paper roughly a meter long and half a meter wide flew up and hovered before them.
"On this side is the Wizarding World's transportation and communication over the past thousand years. On this side is the Muggle world's transportation over the past thousand years. Study it carefully, then write me a reflection of no fewer than two hundred words before the next class."
It was another comparison chart. The Wizarding World had indeed been remarkably advanced. It had possessed the Floo Network centuries ago, and honestly, that method of travel would not become outdated even centuries from now. Yet precisely because of that, the Wizarding World's means of travel and communication had seen little improvement.
Hogwarts' curriculum could be considered quite relaxed. Furthermore, the first-year students were all around eleven years old,