robert fulghum everything i need to know

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.

Ecology and politics and equality and sane living. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. So do we.Īnd then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned-the biggest word of all-LOOK.Įverything you need to know is in there somewhere. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. 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 are all like that. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Live a balanced life-learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School. Learn some, think some, work, and play, and sing and dance and draw, and take a nap each day.ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Hold hands and stick together when you cross the street. Clean up your own mess, and wash your hands before you eat. It’s the sandbox code of ethics… I learned: share, play fair, don’t hit people, don’t take things that don’t belong to you. In the words of the opening scene, “All I really need to know, I learned in kindergarten, about how to live, what to do, how to be. Fulghum encourages us to regain our child-like approach to the everyday events of our lives, the confidence that we can do anything, and an appreciation of the humor that is all around us. These stories are about all of us, and celebrate our very existaence, from the whimsey of childhood to the wisdom of old age.ĭespite the title, Kindergarten was written for adults.

in an aluminum lawn chair lifted by 45 helium-filled surplus weather balloons a “mother of the bride” who brilliantly orchestrates the perfect wedding, until the bowling ball of fate rolls down the aisle and a modern-day Greek phjilosopher who finds the meaning of life in a piece of broken mirror from World War II. The many delightful stories feature colorful characters such as: a shy little boy who insists on playing the “pig” in his class production of Cinderella and steals the show a man whose dream of flying carries him 11,000 feet over Los Angeles. This stage adaptation of Fulghum’s book is an evening of theatrical storytelling, with humorous vignettes about ordinary things. The play takes a funny, insightful, and heartwarming look at what is profound in everyday life. All I Really Need to Know I learned in Kindergarten

Robert fulghum everything i need to know