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The Phantom Tollbooth is an entertaining and adventurous novel about a boy named Milo who is bored with everything, especially with school. For example, when he is in school, he longs to be out and when he is out he longs to be in. However, things begin to change as he is sent to the lands beyond by a magical tollbooth. It is through his journey to these faraway lands, meeting various characters, that he learns to value education. A theme, education, is first demonstrated when Milo says, “I can't see the point in learning to solve useless problems, or subtracting turnips from turnips, or knowing where Ethiopia is or how to spell February." And, since no one bothered to explain otherwise.” He regarded the process of seeking knowledge as the greatest waste of time of all. Another example is when Milo goes to the town of Expectations and meets the Wetherman who repeats everything three times. The only subjects The Wetherman talks about are the weather and navigation. Milo realizes that the Wetherman has limited knowledge, and he sees that this is a bad quality to …show more content…
In the Doldrums people are inactive and don’t go anywhere. Milo and the Lethargardians start to talk about their daily schedule and how they never think or laugh. The Lethargardians say, “As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we’d never get nothing done.” When Milo is at his house he is bored and doesn’t know what to do with himself. He is acting like the Lethargardians. Both sleep and fidget until it’s time to once more go to bed. This relates to education because the Lethargardians never learn anything because those are the rules of the Doldrums. Milo has learned to value education because when he is using his brain to get out of the Doldrums, Milo realizes that this helps him tackle obstacles and
Books: a group of blank white pages where authors record memories, reveal what they imagined, and take us along on a ride through their minds. These past few weeks, I had been reading two popular novels that did in fact take me on that journey: The Outsiders written by S.E. Hinton, and Miracle’s Boys by Jacqueline Woodson. In no uncertain terms, I did notice that these two books could be compared to one another. Although these are two separate books, written by two different authors with separate journeys, they actually have great similarities and differences in the characters and plot.
The first change in personality we see in Milo in the book is after Milo meets Tock in the doldrums on page 31, the story states: “Well continued the watchdog impatiently. Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that in order to get out, you must start thinking. Milo began to think as hard as he could, ( which was very difficult since he wasn’t used to it,) he thought of birds that swim and fish that fly. He thought of yesterday’s lunch and tomorrow's dinner. ” In this statement it shows that Milo has made a friend
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In this passage, Augusten has finally made it into college and he is working in his first English class. This class is focusing only on the technical parts of the language and less on writing. Augusten would go on to be a published writer, which makes it all the more ironic that he is failing at midterm. This supports the idea that we shouldn’t try to force every person into one kind of instruction. Just because Augusten was failing English, that did not mean that he was incapable of learning, it simply meant that the class was not reaching him in the right way. I will learn to understand that not the same kind of therapy will work for every patient just like this teacher was teaching one way and he could not learn for his style of teaching. Making changes to my style of therapy will help me to gain trust and confidence from my patients and will reassure them that I and there for one thing and one thing only: to help
With the use of irony and a free rhyme scheme, Collins’ poem vocalizes his opinion on how lying to children about significant facts can only serve to make them ignorant. The way he communicates this to us is by ironically emphasizing events by understating them. He shows how important an event is by mocking the teacher’s portrayal of the event. One example of how he does this is how the teacher tells his students that the ice age was just the “chilly age, a period of a million years when everyone had to wear sweaters.”(3-4). Collins does this several times with other important events in history, such as the Spanish Inquisition, where “[It] was nothing more than an outbreak of questions.”(7-8). The teacher’s interpretation of events, when compared to the actual events themselves creates a sense of unease, as the lies stray far away from what actually happened, and brings up the question of whether or not these lies should be told. Collins uses events that involve death and destruction to accentuate how big the contrast between the teacher’s explanation and reality is. After the class ends, the children leave the classroom to “torment the weak and the smart” (15-16), while the teacher is oblivious to it all. Note that Collins puts “and the smart” (16) on a separate line from “torment the weak” (15). The children in the class aren’t smart because they did not learn about the true events in history. This distinction emphasized the ignorance of the children. This contrasts with Wilbur’s poem, as the lie told there served to soothe a child’s fear, rather than breed ignorance. The rhyme scheme is different as well. Collins’ free rhyme scheme is used to create a sense of unease, whereas Wilbur’s rhyme scheme creates a child-like feeling to his poem. Unlike the parents in “A Barred Owl”, the teacher is portrayed as an ignorant man, unaware of what happens around
I have just read the book titled Among the Impostors. The author of this book is Margaret Peterson Haddix. This book is a sequel to Among the Hidden. In Among the Hidden, a boy named Luke is hiding from the world because he is an illegal third child. He shouldn’t exist because the government limited the amount of children to each family to two because of the decreasing amounts of food. Luke gets sick of hiding and wants to make a difference, so he gets a fake I.D. with the help of a neighbor and goes to a boarding school. Among the Impostors continues on with Luke’s life in the boarding school, and shows that no matter how people act, they can be very different on the inside. At the boarding school, there is a boy named Jason who gives Luke a very hard time. He has him do push-ups and a bunch of other pointless tasks just in order to get into his bed. Luke is getting sick of it, and one day, he notices that a door is open in the school. It shows the outdoors, and Luke knows that’s his only chance of escaping the wretched school. Once he gets outside, he notices that it’s surrounded by a huge forest that stretches for miles. He ventures outside and makes himself a pitiful garden, but he feels good about it anyway. That was the only thing that kept him there. Then one day he went outside and found that his garden was ruined by people who had stomped all over it. Luke cooks up a plan to bust the people that ruined his garden. He sneaks out during the night and waits for the people to arrive outside. He finds that one of them is Jason. As he eavesdrops on their conversation, he finds out that they’re all third children too.
Imagine if you were bored on a Saturday afternoon. In this situation you would go off to do other things. Imagine that you can’t decide what to do and waste time doing it. Well this is the exact scenario that Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth is experiencing. Milo, a boy who is bored always and wastes time, goes on an adventure that changes the way he sees things in the world.
The way he emphasizes the difference between acquisition and learning, brings a whole new level to education. Using this knowledge, we can develop an education system that will help our youth stay on track and understand what they’re learning and why they’re learning it. This could be particularly helpful with elementary education, when the children are still developing what it means to learn. By redefining the education system, we’ll be able to help our children reach their real potential. If we understand how to teach, it will be a million times easier to connect with the children. We can help our next generation become properly educated about the world that they’re
The relationship between the two teachers and the students is of misunderstanding resulted from difference of generation, and the flaws each teacher has. The students do not understand the values of education as Wayman passionately teaches, and do not realize the wonders of life as the narrator in the story tries to deliver. Moreover, Wayman’s flaw of leniency and the narrator’s lack of communication skills further widens the gap between the teachers and students. However, Wayman is able to identify his students’ misunderstanding, and be unaffected by their indifference, while the narrator blames herself for her students’ apathy toward the subject and completely get discouraged from teaching. From these points above, Wayman in “Students” is more effective as a teacher than the narrator in “Crow Lake.”
... him due to our own biases. Instead, we should contribute more time and effort to observe carefully before judging someone. Moreover, it also applies to the secondary school’s education system that students only learn through repeatedly memorizing by heart, without thorough understanding. In fact, this poem sheds some light on how we see things; thus, interpret things, introducing the importance of experience.” (Yau)
This, of course, motivates him to exercise all options in order to achieve his goal. In quest to learn how to read, he traded food for reading materials. His ingenious plan to use what he has to get what he want was propitious. He traded foods, especially bread, with White boys in came across in the street in order to procure reading materials from them. “I used also to carry bread with me, enough of which was always in the house, and to which I was always welcome; for I was much better off in this regard than many of the poor white children in our neighborhood. This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge” (19). His action denotes how resilient he was to learn how to read and write and also depicts his unwavering determination to become a free man. His plan was fruitful as he finally learned how to
The theme of this story is actually stated in the story if it is read carefully and Crane reinforces it innumerable times. The theme of the story is man’s role in nature and is related to the reader through the use of color imagery, cynicism, human brotherhood, and the terrible beauty and savagery of nature. The story presents the idea that every human faces a voyage throughout life and must transition from ignorance to comprehension of mankind’s place in the universe and among other humans.
...” Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane A. Stanley. Vol. 8. Farmington Hills: Gale, 2000. 37 vols. 15-18. Print.
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster is a book about Milo’s adventures in the tollbooth. One day Milo receives a package inside the package was the Phantom Tollbooth that will change him forever. In the book, Milo starts out with being very bored and wherever he was, he did not want to be there, but as the book goes on he begins to see the world differently. In this essay we will look at the times throughout the book Milo changes his opinion about the world and beyond.
In the story of "Allegory of the Cave", Plato illustrates his concerning on humanity and education. By the meaning of "Allegory of the Cave", we understand the effect of education on us. Most of the people ignore the importance of teaching, and they seek to learn the knowledge of the book or other materials. Therefore, they don 't care the truth or ignore it, which leads the truth far from us. "Indeed, the very principle that education ought to be more concerned with drawing out various human potentials than with only depositing information into students owes its origin to Plato" (Burch 7). To improve people 's educational level, we should realize that what