In 1986 Robert Fulghum published a book “All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten” in which he pointed out those things which he 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 mike are good for your.Live a blanced 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.
- When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
- 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 re 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 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 quality 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 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 it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
I've been looking for a format to coninue my practice study, so I think that it should follow loosely this format, in story form, until I get sidetracked.
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