All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

koey_student_496年,在我跟另一位網友的生日聚會上,有一位網友送了我這本英文書:“All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”。

“All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”,意思是說,以後該知道的、該學會的,很多人生的大道理,其實我們在幼稚園都學會了。
作者說:
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 dance and play and work every day some.
  • Take a nap every afternoon.
  • When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
  • Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Sytrofoam 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 Styrofoam cup- they all die. So do we.
  • And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned- the biggest word of all — LOOK.

在“CEO要你知道的事”一書的序言,也有此書的介紹:

一本談論生活體驗的人生書──All I Really Need to Know, I learned in Kindergarten。這也是提醒世間人,滾滾紅塵,何不回到純真的童年(Back to Childhood,B to C),回想爸爸媽媽或是幼稚園小學的老師教導我們人生基本的道理,
例如:
不可以拿別人的東西(尊重財產權、隱私權、智財權)、
分享時刻(溝通、互動、簡報)、
撞到別人要說「對不起」(處理衝突、給人麻煩)、
「馬路如虎口,過馬路要牽手」(面對危險時要互助合作)等等。
我們不必太擔憂新科技、新人類、新經濟會導致我們無法適應新的挑戰,其實我們在小時候和在路邊攤學到的基本功夫,只要能學好它、活用它、昇華它,雖不中亦不遠矣。為人處世的基本面和企業經營的基本面相似,都是在提醒我們簡單就是美,回到原點,根基打好,就能夠不斷茁壯,迎向變化與挑戰。

寫這篇文,是希望提醒自己不要忘記在幼稚園已經學會的事。
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10 thoughts on “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

  1. Nice post:P I am going to read that book!
    And that little girl is so adorable…such a lovely,funny face!!!!!!!!!!!! Who is she?? :mrgreen:

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