All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
a guide for how to live well

by Robert Fulghum

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.

· 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.

· 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.

· When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - lay down with our blankies for a nap at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 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 it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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Posted March 2014

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