Όσα χρειάζεται να ξέρω τα έμαθα στο Νηπιαγωγείο
Robert Fulghum, 1986
★ 4.00 from 25k ratings on Goodreads
A minister who worked as a bartender, ranch hand and singing cowboy argues that sharing, napping and cookies with milk are the whole of ethics. Short, warm recollections move with an easy, conversational pace, mixing gentle humor with a homesick tenderness for ordinary childhood routines.
Feels like joy, tenderness and nostalgia. About memory, home and morality.
Who it’s for
You may enjoy it if you like brief, heartfelt essays that find moral weight in everyday rituals and small memories. Some readers find the same simplicity trite or boring, and the self-assured tone can wear on you.
Why read it
It offers a quiet reminder that basic decency, rest and shared cookies can be a practical starting point for adult life.
A page from the book
A world where every government's first policy is to put things back where it found them.
Όλα όσα πρέπει να ξέρεις βρίσκονται κάπου εκεί μέσα. Όλες οι ηθικές αρχές και η αγάπη και οι βασικοί κανόνες υγιεινής. Η οικολογία και η πολιτική και η ισότητα και η ψυχική υγεία. Πάρε καθένα απ’ αυτά και επέκτεινέ το με εκλεπτυσμένους ενήλικους όρους και εφάρμοσέ το στην οικογενειακή σου ζωή ή στη δουλειά σου, ή στο κράτος σου ή σ’ ολόκληρο τον πλανήτη και θα ισχύει ακόμα και θα είναι αληθινό και ξεκάθαρο και στιβαρό. Σκέψου πόσο καλύτερος θα ήταν ο κόσμος εάν όλοι μας –ολόκληρος ο κόσμος– τρώγαμε κουλουράκια με γάλα γύρω στις τρεις το μεσημέρι κάθε μέρα και μετά ξαπλώναμε και παίρναμε έναν υπνάκο, τυλιγμένοι με μια κουβερτούλα. Ή εάν όλες οι κυβερνήσεις είχαν ως βασική πολιτική τους να βάζουν πάντα πίσω τα πράγματα εκεί που τα βρήκαν και να επανόρθωναν για τις ζημιές τους. What readers say
Many readers were charmed, amused, and uplifted by the simple life lessons and childhood recollections, finding the short pieces easy and comforting. Others found the same simplicity trite or boring, and some were annoyed by the self-assured tone.
Robert Fulghum.Fulghum was a Unitarian Universalist minister who also worked as a bartender, ranch hand and IBM salesman; this, his first book, was published when he was 49.
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- Is Όσα χρειάζεται να ξέρω τα έμαθα στο Νηπιαγωγείο for me?
- You may enjoy it if you like brief, heartfelt essays that find moral weight in everyday rituals and small memories. Some readers find the same simplicity trite or boring, and the self-assured tone can wear on you.
- What is Όσα χρειάζεται να ξέρω τα έμαθα στο Νηπιαγωγείο like?
- Short, warm recollections move with an easy, conversational pace, mixing gentle humor with a homesick tenderness for ordinary childhood routines. Feels like joy, tenderness and nostalgia. About memory, home and morality.
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