What I Know For Sure

 I used to be so smart.

No really, I was. 

I knew everything. If  you asked me anything, I would say "I know."

Some may tell you now that I still say that and I do. I love to learn and teach. I love concepts, principles, philosophies, theories etc. What some pedagogist might call "Broad Based Thinking".

I fell in love with books and began a life of pondering beyond my navel. My contemplation of life complies natural concepts and experimentation. "What do we know to be true and what have we seen."

Growing up with strong family beliefs in God and the Nature of all Life, I had a great deal of knowledge passed to me at a very early age.

What I know to be true is that it was not just me. Many of us got it early in life.  And like me, used to be smart.

What makes us forget?

My Mother hipped me to the Kindergarten Theory, first in Kindergarten then again when the theory became public by Robert Fulgham.  Mom gave me and my Brother the best gift a parent can give, a thirst for knowledge, a belief in our life and understanding of our purpose.

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN(a guide for Global Leadership)

• 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 in 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 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 at about 3 o'clock in the 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 in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

 [Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum.  See his web site at http://www.robertfulghum.com/  ]


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