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

Robert Fulghum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394588940 ISBN 13: 9780394588940

Publisher: Grafton Books, 1990

Synopsis

When asked what he does, Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher, and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing, speaking or painting. This is a collection of his favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with big meanings.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Robert Fulghum was born in 1937 in Waco, Texas. He has several academic degrees, worked as a singing cowboy in guest ranches in Texas, Colorado and Montana, and rode in local rodeos. For twenty years, he was an ordained parish minister at Seattle's Edmonds Unitarian Church, where he is now minister emeritus. Fulghum has travelled twice around the world, living in Thailand, Greece, Japan (in a Buddhist monastery) and France. He now lives on a houseboat in Seattle and spends his time sailing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grafton Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0394588940
• ISBN 13: 9780394588940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40