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All I Really Need To Know
I Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need to know about how to live,
what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten.
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school
mountain, but in the sandbox at nursery school.
These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play
fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess. Say you're sorry when you hurt
somebody. Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some, draw
and paint some, sing, play and work some - everyday. Take a nap every
afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and
stick together.
Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots
go down and the plant goes up and nobody really
knows how or why -- but we are all like that. Goldfish
and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the plastic cup -- they all die -- so
do we.
And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the
first word you learned, the biggest word
of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is in there
somewhere.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all --
the whole world -- had mild and cookies
about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankets for a nap.
Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other
nations to always put things back where we
found them and clean up our own messes.
And it is still true -- no matter how old you are --
when you go out into the world, it is best -- to
hold hands and stick together!
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