All I Really Need To Know... I Learned In Kindergarten

As my first post I thought I would share one of my all time favorite kindergarten qoutes! This is so true!

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

by Robert Fulghum

- an excerpt from the book, All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. ALL 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 sandpile at Sunday 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 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 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 out for traffic, hold
           hands, and stick together.

           Be aware of wonder.

           Remember the little seed in the styrofoam 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 Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.

           And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books 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 equality and
sane living.

Take any of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms
and apply it to your family life or your work or your government or your
world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it
would be if all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about
three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a
nap. Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put thing back
where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

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.