Somewhere through the years, I saved the following which I found to have wisdom and humor.
WHAT 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 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 daw 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 like that.
Goldfish 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 in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic
sanitation. Ecology and policies and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-
had cookies and milk about 3 0'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 Fulghum, Kansas City Times
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 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 daw 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 like that.
Goldfish 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 in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic
sanitation. Ecology and policies and sane living.
Think of what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-
had cookies and milk about 3 0'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 Fulghum, Kansas City Times
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