幼兒園里所學的……

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 mountain， but there in the sandbox 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. 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 into the world， watch for traffic， hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic 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 plastic cup——they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane 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 sane living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all——the whole world——had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap. or if we had a basic policy in our nations to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes， and it is still true， no matter how old you are， when you go out into the world， it is better to hold hands and stick together.

生活中真正需要的大部分知識，包括如何生活，要做些什么，怎樣行事，這些我都是在幼兒園時學會的。研究生院或許是求學過程的巔峰，但人生的智慧卻是在幼兒園內嬉戲的沙堡里。

以下這些就是我從幼兒園里學到的：跟別人分享你的一切；光明磊落地處事；不攻擊別人；物歸原處；清理好自己的垃圾；不拿不屬于自己的東西； 傷害了別人就說抱歉；吃東西之前記得洗手；熱甜點和涼牛奶對身體有益。生活要有張有弛，學習、思考、繪畫、唱歌、跳舞、休息和工作，安排輕松生活。

每天下午小憩片刻。外出時，注意交通安全，手挽手，互相扶持、留意生活中的奇跡。還記得那個塑料杯里的小小種子嗎?它的根不斷地往下扎，枝不斷地往上長。沒有人真正知道它怎樣生長，也不知道它為什么要生長。但有一點很清楚，我們跟它一樣， 在慢慢長大。

金魚、倉鼠、小白鼠， 甚至花盆中的一顆小種子——他們的生命最后都將消亡。我們亦明白， 自己同樣也不能避免死亡。

記得我從《迪克與簡》這本書中學到的第一個生詞， 那也是最了不起的一個詞：觀察。一切你需要掌握的知識：包括做人的準則、愛、 基本的衛生習慣， 生態環境和政治哲學以及健全的生活方式你都可以在該書的某個角落尋到答案。

試想一下，如果我們——全世界每一個人——每天下午3點左右都能夠享受甜點和牛奶， 然后躺下來蓋上毯子小睡片刻；或是全世界所有國家都能遵循一個基本的立國之道，即：物歸原處，清理自己的垃圾， 那么這個世界將會變得更加美好。無論年齡大小， 出門在外時都要團結一致， 互相扶持——這是一條顛撲不破的真理。