All I Really Need To Know…I Learned In Kindergarten - by Robert Fulghum
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 sand-pile 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.
> 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.
> 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 is the biggest word of all – LOOK!
> 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 is 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.
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Reflection Stories Note…The Message Version of the Holy Bible states: One day children were brought to Jesus in the hopes that He would lay hands on them and pray over them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus intervened: “Let the children alone; don’t prevent them from coming to me. God’s kingdom is made up of people like these.”
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Author Robert Fulghum’s philosophical advisory, on how adults ought live clearly mirrors this scripture. Wisdom is not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. Thank you sir for your insight…indeed All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten!
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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Reflection Stories Note…The Message Version of the Holy Bible states: One day children were brought to Jesus in the hopes that He would lay hands on them and pray over them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus intervened: “Let the children alone; don’t prevent them from coming to me. God’s kingdom is made up of people like these.”
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Author Robert Fulghum’s philosophical advisory, on how adults ought live clearly mirrors this scripture. Wisdom is not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. Thank you sir for your insight…indeed All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten!
