          ALL I EVER REALLY NEEDED TO KNOW, I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN...

Most of what 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 sandbox at nursery school.


                    These are the things I learned:
                    
                    o     Share everything.
                    o     Play fair.
                    o     Don't hit people.
                    o     Put things back where you found them.
                    o     Clean up your own mess.
                    o     Don't take things that aren't yours.
                    o     Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
                    o     Wash your hands before you eat.
                    o     Flush.
                    o     Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
                    o     Live a balanced life.
                    o     Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and
                          sing and dance and play every day.

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Take a nap every afternoon.  When you go out into the world, watch for 
traffic, hold hands and stick together.  Be aware of wonder.  Remember the 
little seed in the plastic cup.  The roots go down and the plant goes up and 
nobody really knows how or why, but we all are like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic 
cup - they all die.  So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word of all: 
LOOK.  Everything you need to know is there somewhere.  The Golden Rule and 
love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and sane living.

Think of 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 blankets for a nap.  Or if we had a basic policy in our nation and other 
nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own 
messes.  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!

* By Robert Fulghum, condensed from The Kansas City Times
* Courtesy of MICRONEWS...

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