All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things - Softcover

Fulghum, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449908577 ISBN 13: 9780449908570

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1993

Synopsis

Most of what 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 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.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“It is interesting how much of it applies not only to individuals, grown or small, but even to nations.”
– New York Daily News

“Within simplicity lies the sublime.”
– San Francisco Chronicle

“A healthy antidote to the horrors that pummel us in this dicey age.”
– The Baltimore Sun

“As universal as fresh air and invigorating as the fragrance of a Douglas fir.”
–Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Robert Fulghum is a writer, philosopher, and public speaker, but he has also worked as a cowboy, a folksinger, an IBM salesman, a professional artist, a parish minister, a bartender, a teacher of drawing and painting, and a father. All I Really Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten has inspired numerous theater pieces that have captivated audiences across the country. Fulghum is also the author of many New York Times bestsellers, including It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, Uh-Oh, and Maybe (Maybe Not), as well as two plays: All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten and Uh-Oh, Here Comes Christmas. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0449908577
• ISBN 13: 9780449908570
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224