The Phantom Tollbooth

We just finished reading The Phantom Tollbooth as a family and I wanted to share a few quotes.

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons." - Reason

"...it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters." - Rhyme

"...but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way." - Reason

"...what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do." - Reason

"...as you've discovered, so many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." - The Mathemagician and King Azaz

"He waited impatiently for the end of class, and when the time finally came, his feet raced his thoughts all the way back to the house" said of Milo

The last thought reminds me of all the times I was in a hurry to get home from school so I could start learning. Our children frequently make comments that suggests they feel the same way.