All You Needed to Know.

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 of sunday school. These are the things I learned. - 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 your sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balenced life- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work everyday some. - 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 that little seed in the styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and no one really knows how or 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. - 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 equality and sane living. - Take any one of those items and extrapolate 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 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 on our blankies for a nap. Or what if all Governments had a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. - And is it still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to stick together.