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All I Really Need to Know I
Learned in Kindergarten
23 x 35 Print
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This fun
poster features a poem, with many words of wisdom, by
Robert Fulgham. The text on the poster reads:
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 and Sunday School. These are the
things I learned ▀ Share everything. Play fair. Don't
hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clan
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 point 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
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 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a
basic policy to always put things back where they found
them and to clean up their own mess. ▀ And its still
true, no matter how old you are -- when you go out into
the world, its best to hold hands and stick together.
By Robert Fulgham |
