ALL THE THINGS I REALLY
NEEDED TO KNOW
I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN.
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Share Everything.
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Play Fair.
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Don't Hit People.
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Put things back where you
found them.
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Clean up your own mess.
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Don't take things that
aren't yours.
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Say you're sorry when you
hurt somebody.
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Wash your hands before
you eat.
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Flush the potty after using
it.
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Warm cookies and milk are
good for you.
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Live a balanced life.
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Learn some and think some
and draw and paint and
sing and dance
and play and work some
every day.
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Take a nap every afternoon.
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Hold hands, and stick together.
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When you go out into the
world, watch for traffic.
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Be aware of wonder.
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Remember the little seed
in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the
plant goes up and
nobody really knows 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.
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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.
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.
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Think what a better world
it would be if we all - the whole
world had cookies and milk
at three o'clock in the
afternoon and lay down
with our blankets for a nap....
Or if all the governments
had 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 still holds true,
no matter how old you are ----
When you go out into the
world, it is
best to hold hands and
stick together.
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