All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

bookless — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:15:24 +0000

This was written by Robert Fulghum and it’s part of a book named All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things, a collection of essays on the simple and elemental things in life published for the first time in 1988 and a bestseller for nearly two years. It might seem a little silly to some, but I think that if we remembered all the things we learned (or what our parents and teachers tried to teach us) when we were little and acted everyday according to those basic principles, the world would be a much better place to live in.

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. 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 sandpile 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.

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.
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.

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bookless — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:49:27 +0000

Pero, pero, pero, pero ¿como es esto posible? A las 15:35 de la tarde ya me he zampado dos panes con mantequilla y mermelada, dos tazas de té, un plato de cereal, un platazo de piña, toronja y plátano, el jugo de la toronja, dos hamburguesas vegetarianas de la Linda McCartney con papitas fritas ¡y tengo todavía hambre! Curioso, hay días que me cuesta comer y días que parece que me tengo que comer todo lo que no me comí el día anterior… Curioso que solo quiero comer comida de verdad y que las calorías vacías no me tientan demasiado. Voy por un vasito de gazpacho.

Actualización, 16:51 pm: Tras un vaso de gazpacho y unas sesame snaps, sigo con hambre. WTF?? Voy por una manzana.

don't burn hot,

All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten

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