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KINDERGARDEN 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. Whe