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- ALL I EVER REALLY NEEDED TO KNOW, I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN...
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- 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.
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- These are the things I learned:
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- o Share everything.
- o Play fair.
- o Don't hit people.
- o Put things back where you found them.
- o Clean up your own mess.
- o Don't take things that aren't yours.
- o Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
- o Wash your hands before you eat.
- o Flush.
- o Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
- o Live a balanced life.
- o Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and
- sing and dance and play every day.
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- 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 all are like that.
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- Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic
- cup - they all die. So do we.
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- And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word of all:
- LOOK. Everything you need to know is there somewhere. The Golden Rule and
- love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.
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- Think of what a better world it would be if we 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 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!
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- * By Robert Fulghum, condensed from The Kansas City Times
- * Courtesy of MICRONEWS...
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