All I Really Need to Know …..
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum
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
sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I
learned:
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum
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Share everything
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Don’t take things that aren’t yours
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Play fair
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Say you’re sorry when you hurt
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Don’t hit people
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Put things back where you
found them
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Clean up your own mess
somebody
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Wash your hands before you eat
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Flush
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Warm cookies and milk are good
for you
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum
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Live a balanced life – learn some and think some and draw
and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day
some
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Take a nap every afternoon
Be
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aware of wonder
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold
hands, and stick together
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Get off to the right start
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“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up
someplace else.” –Yogi Berra
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“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you
just sit there.” –Will Rogers
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Build Dreams and Set Goals
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“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation
determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you
do it.” –Lou Holtz
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“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be
continually fearing you will make one.” –Elbert Hubbard
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Manage Your Time and Energy
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“Take care of your minutes, and the hours will take care of
themselves.” –Lord Chesterfield
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“This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the
things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time
and energy.” –Kerry Gleeson
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Think Critically and Creatively
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“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its
original dimensions.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Develop Information Literacy Skills
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“I find that a great part of the information I have was
acquired by looking up something and finding something
else on the way.” –Franklin P. Adams
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“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying
with a purpose.” –Zora Neale Hurston
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Engage in Your Education
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“What actually correlates with success are not grades, but
‘engagement’ – genuine involvement in courses and campus
activities.” –John Merrow
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Listen and Take Notes
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“You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at
the same time.” –M. Scott Peck
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“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another
person is to listen. Just listen.” –Rachel Naomi Remen
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Develop Your Memory
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“I have a photographic memory but once in a while I forget
to take off the lens cap.” –Milton Berle
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“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We
only know that some things don’t come to mind when we
want them.” –Friedrich Nietzsche
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Read and Study
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“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the
ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it
ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” –Thomas
Henry Huxley
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“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t
know.” –Daniel J. Boorstin
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Take Tests with Strategy
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“One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go
in.” –Wayne Gretzky
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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not
enough; we must do.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Reduce Test Anxiety
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“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than
negative thinking will.” –Zig Ziglar
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“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” –Lily Tomlin
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Build Relationships
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“Eighty percent of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful
relationships.” –Brian Tracy
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“Our emotions are the driving powers of our lives.” –Earl
Riney
All I Really Need to Know in College
I Learned in ACA 115
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Creating Your Future
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“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” –Yogi Berra
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“It is not what we get but who we become, what we
contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.” –Anthony
Robbins
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“Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.” –Richard Dumb
Final Bits of Wisdom
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Read assignments carefully
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If grading rubrics are
provided, use them
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Take advantage of all resources
available to you
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Consider all classes and all
assignments as important
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Ask questions
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Turn in work on time
Never
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Plan ahead
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Attend
class faithfully
cheat or plagiarize
Have fun!