Mr. K's Kindergarten

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All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how 
to be, I learned in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate 
school mountain, but there 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. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say 
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 and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day 
some.

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for 
traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. 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. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and 
politics and sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had 
cookies and milk 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 cleaned 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.

-Robert Fulgham

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