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** Excerpted from the poem by Robert Fulghum **
 * All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten **

** All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how ** ** to be **** I learned in kindergarten. 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 you're sorry when you hurt somebody. ** ** Wash your hands before you eat. ** ** Flush. ** ** Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. ** ** Live a balanced life - learn some and think some ** ** and draw and paint and sing and dance and play ** ** and work every day some. ** ** Take a nap every afternoon. ** ** When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, ** ** hold hands, and stick together. ** ** Be aware of wonder. ** ** 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. ** ** Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even ** ** the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. ** ** So do we. ** ** And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books ** ** and the first word you learned - the biggest ** ** word of all - LOOK. ** ** 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. **