Contributor: Kim mi-jung

Author: Robert Fulghum

Work: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

About five years ago I read this book. As I am getting older, I feel the world I belong to seems so complex. So many riots and wars under the name of justice, poverty, violence, etc. The older you are the more you see what’s going on around you and the world you live. Anyway the book title caught my eye. They are ordinary people’s ordinary stories, but truly moving ones. As we grow up we forget the simplest things but the most important.

All 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 sand pile at school.

(Quoted from Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. New York: Harper Collins, 1990. Permission to publish not yet granted.)