all i really need to know
i learned in kindergarten.
- 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 dance and play and work
everyday 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. and 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. and 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
is -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 things back where they found them
and to clean up their own mess.
and it's true, no matter how old you are,
when you go into the world, it is best to
hold hands and stick together.
robert fulghum, 1990
from his book, all i really need to know i learned
in kindergarten.
photo credit / marco van rijt
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