在幼儿园学到的处世智慧

We Learn a Lot in the Kindergarten

我们在幼儿园里学到很多

Most of what 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 mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school.

在怎样生活、怎样做事、怎样做人方面，我最需要知道的东西，是在幼儿园学到的。智慧不是在学位的高山之巅，而是在这里，在幼儿园的沙池里。

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.

下面是我在幼儿园学到的东西：分享一切。公平游戏。不要打人。物归原位。清理自己凌乱的东西。不要拿不是自己的东西。当你伤害别人的时候，说声“对不起。”吃东西前要洗手。便后冲水。温热的曲奇饼和凉牛奶有益健康。过一种平衡的生活。每天学一点，想一点，绘画、唱歌、跳舞、玩耍、工作，都来一点。

Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

每天下午都午睡。当你外出的时候，注意交通安全，手拉手，紧挨着。留心神奇的东西。记住塑料杯子里的小种子。根往下扎，植物往上长，没有人知道怎么长的，为什么这样长。但是我们都像这样。

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup - they all die. So do we.

金鱼、仓鼠、小白鼠、塑料杯子里的小种子--它们都会死。我们也—样。

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: Look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

还要记住那本关于迪克和简的书，还有你学的第一个词，所有词中 -最大的一个：寻找。你想知道的一切就在某个地方。