Robert Fulghum's, All I Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, is an extraordinary account of simplicity. Fulghum's philosophy throughout this book is that we learn the basics, the most crucial fundamentals of life, when we are young. All other factors that we pick up along the way just enrich or change our primary essentials of life in some form or manner. Fulghum states "Most of what I really needed to know about life and how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in Kindergarten." In Kindergarten you learn such things as share, play fair, and clean up your own mess. Throughout life these simple policies evolve into generosity, honorableness and responsibility. The basics of these traits have been instilled in us from a very young age and as we live they continue to grow and deepen. .
On more than one occasion Fulghum opens the reader to the idea that "average" human beings all hold similar innate ideas, beliefs, and values. When I say the word "average" I mean the norm, your everyday person. There are always exceptions to everything. The world consists of many robbers, rapists and murders, but should that label the entire human race as generally bad? Fulghum addresses the oh too common phrase "You can not trust anybody anymore." Through a short story he tries to prove this theory wrong. He believes that people are generally kind hearted. .
A man was doing a study to see if he could prove whether or not people in general could be trusted. So the man pretended to be foreign to this country with little knowledge of English. Under this disguise the man planned to take several dozen taxi rides around the city to see how many drivers would take advantage of him. Only one driver out of thirty-seven cheated this man. In fact the majority of the drivers were more than helpful and warned him to look out for crooks. This evidence proves that you can trust people more than you think.
Charly and I Six o"clock in the morning- the alarm clock is blaring and I have to get up for my dog in order to take it for a walk. It is not a pleasure to get up that early especially during the winter when it is cold and freezy outside - but let me start my story at the beginning. Since t...
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When you think back to your childhood, what comes to mind? How about the endless days of fun, riding your bike until sunset, playing with peers during school recess? Many of our childhoods would be incomplete without these memories; they were what made our childhoods grand. Imagining you were married to your crush in your class, exploring the playground and pretending it was a different world; socializing with friends and playing with them, and learning how to share with each other provided a great foundation for our lives and how we grew up. These are the skills kindergarteners should be taug...
Less than a year after taking office, President George W.Bush signed his top agenda item... comprehensive education reform , changing the governments role in the nations school systems from kindergarden thru high school.The law is the reauthoirization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), now to be known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). ...
