I would like to share some lines which I think are very meaningful in our frivolous and chaotic and arrognat world. These lines come from a book I am reading.
"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 sandpile at 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 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.
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 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. Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about tree o`clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.
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."
I think it is a good idea to think about this credo in order to know where we are and know where we will take our lives. Do not miss the track. Thanks.
For those who want to buy the book:
AL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARDENT BY ROBERT FULGHUM
Hi teacher:
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Hi,
When I was reading this article, I thought “This is a utopia”, because in the world there are many people who are selfish, and they don’t stop to think in the benefits of others. And the other hand there are texts expressed in metaphors, which I did not understand very well. But, I want to take a sentence of the article that says “Clean up your own mess”. If we really thought about this phrase, we would realize that the problem comes from our childhood, because many times when we were children, our mother cleaned up our mess, now we think “if we do not clean up our mess, other person will do it”.
In the present time, I’m working on my thesis, and one topic that I chose was Corporate Social Responsibility, the topic is very interesting for me, and one of my preliminary conclusions is that it depends a lot of the values of the businessman, because if he had this value in his own life, he can see the impact of his activities on the society, thus he can put solutions to them and transmit them within his organization more easily.
hi!!!
I think that all the people we need remember when we're children.
It's the time more important time in own life, it's when us developed, in this time know more important thinks that the respect, if we teach at the kids good things like respect, organization, freedom, we'll need created a new generation, with the proposito of serve their country and be better people, thinking of continuous improvement, and returning to the basic values that always imparted and that are losing because of the corrupt society in which we!!!
I think the topic of the book is very interesting, personaly I would like to read it in order to remember those thing that we are forgeting when we grew up.
Most of the times we are not aware of the beautiful thing that surround us, for example I don´t look at the sky when I go out to work all mornings, I only think to arrive on time. As I take public transportation I see people fiting at a very early time and it´s very sad.
If we just try to give a smile, give thanks and be polite with other persons things were better.
I think we have to put atention on those things, parents should teach this kind of mains to their children If we want to live in a better world.
hi teacher
well i think your rigth because all the things we learned in kinder are basic things for all our life.
i think we have to think in all that things because sometimes we forget and we star to be unkind persons.
also i think that if we all follow this little rules we will be a better society.
than you teacher
bye
Hi!
When I read the post I remember a poster that I saw in the office of a teacher. When I saw it, I read all the phrases and in my brain tried to imagine what are the changes in my life if I follow this advices?.
And my conclusion is that this kind of advices are really usefulls, in example "Share everything", if I can share my book in class with a partner, maybe I would be a little uncomfortable during the class, but when I forget my book, pencil, etc... I think that this person will return me the favor.
Or maybe the phrase "Wash your hands before eat", in Mexico where is very common eat on the streets, is a very, very usefull advice.
As you said, this is not dogma, and maybe in some cases are not able to do it, but are good advice for improve our life style.
Bye!
Name: Carlos Augusto Lozano Vargas
Group: Upper 3
e-mail: vend3tta@yahoo.fr
HELLO GEORGE!!!
I really like this article because i am agree with these lines that are completely truth and they can help us with our development in the society and with relations ships.
this article remembers me that my teacher tell me that when we cross the door and we are going to start the class we have to forget our problems, feelings because we can hurt someone with our behaviour or our words and for me this could be another rule.
thank you and see you on Saturday!!!!
Waw!!! These tenses remember me when I was in kindergarten, since a lot of time that I don´t take a nap, or have a pet, or draw and paint and sing and dance and play jajajaja!!! The next week I´m going to buy that book, relly relly sound good, and I belive that I need to remeber "Back to the Basics" in all my life; and not only me, everypeople should read that book and re-learn the basic, forget problems, wars, and other things that only is bad to the world.Thanks teacher for that information!
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Hi, george!
When I was reading this article I thought "wow this is for real, it's true"
I think we are always forgetting about the basics that brought us up the way we are now.
Everything was easier back then, sometimes I think it would be good to be able to go back to that time, when everything could be arranged with a candy or something like that. But the truth is that we can't. We have forgotten about sharing things, not being selfish, being polite, saying please and thank you, and all these things we've learned in kindergarden.
People are used to taking everything for granted and that's something really difficult to change. But I think that if we make an effort and start thinking about the people around us, everything is gonna be way better than now.