A WORD FOR KINDERGARTEN BASICS
Socrates insisted that the unexamined life is not worth living and there’s wisdom in that, to be sure. But the examined life isn’t always a picnic either. In such times I fall back on what I’ve come to think of as a Kindergarten State of Mind. 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 nursery 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. Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and…
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