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                Robert Fulghum

           "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 sand pile at Sunday School.           

            -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 you 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 nape 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 one 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 we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock

            every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nape.  Or if all governments had a basic policy to always put things 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 better to hold hands and stick together."

 

        Books by Robert Fulghum

            All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
               It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
               Uh-Oh
               Maybe (Maybe Not
               From Beginning to End
               True Love
               Words I Wish I Wrote

               Third Watch - Due out Soon

           

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