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All Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten…

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Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be,

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I learned in kindergarten.

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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain,

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but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

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These are the things I learned:

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Share everything. Play fair. 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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Warm cookies and cold 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 every day some.

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Take a nap every afternoon.

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

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Be aware of wonder.

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Remember the little seed in the plastic cup?

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The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why,

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but we are all like that.

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Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup —

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they all die. So do we.

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And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all:

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Look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

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The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.

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Think of what a better world it would be if we all —

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the whole world — had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon

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and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.

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Or if we had a basic policy in our nations

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to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes.

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And it is still true, no matter how old you are,

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when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.