ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN(a guide for Global Leadership)
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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 school. These are the things I learned:
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 school. These are the things I learned:
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Share everything.
Share everything.
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Play fair.
Play fair.
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Don't hit people.
Don't hit people.
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Put things back where you found them.
Put things back where you found them.
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Clean up your own mess.
Clean up your own mess.
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Don't take things that aren't yours.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
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Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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Wash your hands before you eat.
Wash your hands before you eat.
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Flush.
Flush.
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Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
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Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
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Take a nap every afternoon.
Take a nap every afternoon.
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When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
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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.
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.
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Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
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And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
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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.
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.
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Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
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Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap.
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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.
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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.
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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[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum. See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/ ]
12 comments:
Like the idea of naps & cookies, just didn't have kindergarden when I went to school in the early 50's
crabby: You mean they didn't have K when you started to school? But, you're so "young"!!(lol) They certainly didn't have it in '45-'46 when I started to school. But the lessons can be applied to first grade as well. We learned the same thing! First grade then is the same as Kindergarten now.
This was a good post... makes one pause and think...
Thanks for stopping by my place,
-eve-! Most of the time, I do try to post something that gives my readers 'thinking fodder'.
~my hubby ran away from school till about 2nd grade. No wonder he's been so hard to train!
LOL
Tammie: So did mine!! He would go to sleep on the running board of his dad's pickup so he wouldn't have to go to school in the first grade! True story!!
undoubtly crabby flunked spelling & grammar , if he ever went to school.
chickenherder
CRABBY IS DOING JUST FINE... THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!
I know this one and love it too hun,ty for sharing!:)
Many of rules to live by, for sure.
One of my favorites from childhood was; keep asking "Why" until you understand, and you will know alot!
Inspired
Thanks for the good post. I like this one "Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.." I like cookies, and I like fresh milk too! Have a fine Texas evening.
cfs
I still have milk and cookies almost every day.
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