The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth tells the story of a boy named Milo who doesn’t the need to learn. The theme of the Phantom Tollbooth is the need for education, and not just education but real education. Education is not a right, but a privilege. Milo goes on an adventure to discover that there more to learning than meets the eye. Milo learns that education is more than reading, wring, and learning, but an experience. Learning isn’t just something one does at school, but something which is done everywhere. Thus, is milo’s problem he not be taught correctly at school because he does see the need for school. A school shouldn’t be a prison, but a place for liberation. Milo shouldn’t see education as a waste of time, but a place to spend one’s time. "It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," he remarked one day as he walked dejectedly home from school.
This why Milo received the tollbooth because the tollbooth is the gateway to education. Norton Jester uses Milo as a symbol for all children because most children don’t see the need to learn. Most adults are much because they force children to learn, and not explain why children must learn. Milo just doesn’t learn the importance of education but learns how to take what one has learned but them to use. This what Milo learns from Rhyme, "Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that are important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that