晨读英语美文 All I Learned in Kindergarten

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All I Learned in Kindergarten

[00:10.45]Most of what I really need to know

[00:15.65] about how to live and what to do and how to be,

[00:18.98]I learned in kindergarten.

[00:21.70]Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain,

[00:25.88]but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

[00:29.68]These are the things I learned:

[00:32.53]Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people.

[00:37.85]Put things back where you found them.

[00:41.06]Clean up your own mess.

[00:44.33]Don't take things that aren't yours.

[00:46.65]Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

[00:50.15]Wash your hands before you eat.

[00:53.60]Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

[00:57.56]Live a balanced life.

[01:00.22]Learn some and think some and draw and paint 

[01:05.33]and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

[01:10.16]Take a nap every afternoon.

[01:13.24]When you go out into the world, 

[01:16.77]watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

[01:20.68]Be aware of wonder.

[01:22.72]Remember the little seed in the plastic cup?

[01:26.37]The roots go down and the plant goes up 

[01:30.75]and nobody really knows how or why,

[01:33.60]but we are all like that.

[01:36.40]Goldfish and hamsters and white mice 

[01:40.04]and even the little seed in the plastic cup, 

[01:42.66]they all die. So do we.

[01:45.50]And then remember the book about Dick and Jane 

[01:50.21]and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all:

[01:53.35]Look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

[01:58.55]The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.

[02:04.16] Ecology and politics and sane living.

[02:07.14]Think of what a better world it would be if we all— 

[02:11.79]the whole world—had cookies 

[02:14.22]and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon

[02:17.45]and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.

[02:20.51]Or if we had a basic policy in our nations

[02:24.58]to always put things back where we found them 

[02:28.52]and cleaned up our own messes.

[02:30.79]And it is still true, no matter how old you are,

[02:34.32]when you go out into the world,

[02:37.28] it is better to hold hands and stick together.