All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten!

by Robert Fulghum Pages 4-6.

Share everything and play fair

Don't hit people

Put things back where you found them

Don't take things that aren't yours

Say your 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 our 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 when we 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 one of these 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 blankets for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where the 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!