[轉錄]我在幼稚園裡學會的道理

在學妹的版上看到這篇文章，覺得還蠻有共鳴的。我時常在想，小時候學了這麼多待人處事的道理，卻在成長過程中夢醒，漸漸發現世界根本不是照這套道理運作的。是這些道理錯了嗎？還是大部分的人把它們拋在腦後了？
我們從小就學會要有同理心，要禮讓行人，但四周卻是在門口停車或對行人亂按喇叭的駕駛。我們從小被教導做錯事要勇於認錯，卻從來沒有聽過政府官員為錯誤的政策道歉，並且務實的修正錯誤。或許世界不是這樣運作的，但只要我們還記得這些道理，並且用行動追求這樣的社會，或許世界真的會美好一點。

（自己翻譯的，詞句不順的話請見諒）

我們早在幼稚園裡就學會了一輩子所需的待人處事道理。我們不需要到高等學院裡找尋智慧，它們就在在幼稚園的沙堆裡。

這些是我在幼稚園裡學會的道理：
＊與他人分享一切
＊追求公平
＊不要傷害別人
＊用完東西要放回原位
＊自己弄髒的自己處理
＊不要拿不是你的東西
＊當你傷害別人時要道歉
＊吃飯前記得洗手
＊衝馬桶
＊熱餅乾和牛奶對你有益
＊過均衡的生活--學習新知、多思考、每天都要畫畫、唱歌、跳舞、玩耍和工作。
＊下午睡個午覺
＊出門後注意交通安全，盡量團體行動
＊留意世界上的驚喜：還記得保立龍杯子裡的小種子嗎？它發芽然後成長，沒有人知道它是怎麼辦到的，但我們也是這樣成長。
＊金魚、倉鼠和保立龍杯裡的小種子，它們有一天都會死，我們也是。
＊記住你第一個學會的字：看

你一生所需要知道的道理都在這裡面。隨便挑選一條，然後用繁複的成人字眼解讀它，再套到你的家庭、工作或是政府政策上，你會發現這些道理仍然管用。想想看，如果我們...以及整個世界在下午三點都有分餅乾和牛奶當點心，並且睡個午覺。政府在制訂政策時記得把東西放回原處，或是把他們搞砸的事情清理乾淨，這個世界該有多美好。不管你幾歲，或是到哪裡，別忘了跟朋友手牽手，團體行動。


出處
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. 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 in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
• Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam 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.

Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.