All I really need to know i
learned in kindergarten
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
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.
~Robert
Fulghum