All I Really Need to Know …..

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

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 milk are good

for you

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum

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

Be 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 I Learned in Kindergarten (pp. 4-5) --Robert Fulghum

Get off to the right start “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up

someplace else.” –Yogi Berra

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you

just sit there.” –Will Rogers

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Build Dreams and Set Goals “Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation

determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you

do it.” –Lou Holtz

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be

continually fearing you will make one.” –Elbert Hubbard

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Manage Your Time and Energy “Take care of your minutes, and the hours will take care of

themselves.” –Lord Chesterfield

“This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the

things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time

and energy.” –Kerry Gleeson

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Think Critically and Creatively “A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its

original dimensions.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events.

Small minds discuss people.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

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Develop Information Literacy Skills “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

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying

with a purpose.” –Zora Neale Hurston

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Engage in Your Education “What actually correlates with success are not grades, but

‘engagement’ – genuine involvement in courses and campus

activities.” –John Merrow

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Listen and Take Notes “You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at

the same time.” –M. Scott Peck

“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another

person is to listen. Just listen.” –Rachel Naomi Remen

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Develop Your Memory “I have a photographic memory but once in a while I forget

to take off the lens cap.” –Milton Berle

“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

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Read and Study “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

“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t

know.” –Daniel J. Boorstin

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Take Tests with Strategy “One hundred percent of the shots you don’t take don’t go

in.” –Wayne Gretzky

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not

enough; we must do.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Reduce Test Anxiety “Positive thinking will let you do everything better than

negative thinking will.” –Zig Ziglar

“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.” –Lily Tomlin

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Build Relationships “Eighty percent of life’s satisfaction comes from meaningful

relationships.” –Brian Tracy

“Our emotions are the driving powers of our lives.” –Earl

Riney

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Creating Your Future “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” –Yogi Berra

“It is not what we get but who we become, what we

contribute… that gives meaning to our lives.” –Anthony

Robbins

“Don’t follow your dreams; chase them.” –Richard Dumb

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Read assignments carefully

If grading rubrics are

provided, use them

Ask questions

Turn in work on time

Plan ahead

Attend class faithfully

Take advantage of all resources

available to you

Consider all classes and all

assignments as important

Never cheat or plagiarize

Have fun!

Final Bits of Wisdom