When Robert Fulghum wrote his tiny little book, “All I Really Needed To Know I Learned in Kindergarten,” all the world applauded and — short of making him a saint — agreed that his thesis is gospel truth. And I think it is.
But since my daughter, Marielle, graduated from Kindergarten in March this year a nagging question has been incessantly ringing in my head: If Fulghum is so correct in saying what he said in his famous little book then parents should already be done with their obligation to send their kids to school as soon as they graduate from Kindergarten.
Marielle's Kindergarten Certificate
Why then am I (and my xGF) in this situation now where we need to make some major life(style)-changing decisions as a direct result of Marielle’s kindergarten graduation?
We’ve been slaving ourselves at work to afford an Educational Plan for Marielle’s and Johan’s college education. Guess what? Marielle’s 1st year in Grade School would cost us as much as if we are sending her to college now. Which begs the question, “Should we instead send her to college now?” A very tempting idea, isn’t it?
Going back to Fulghum’s earthshaking thesis… Since everybody agrees with him then the only conclusion I can draw is that higher education is a farce. It must be the scheme of the “evil empire” to wring hapless parents of their money and prevent them from doing anything else but work for the “evil empire” until they are too old to do anything else of real value.
Oh well… forgive my cynism and senseless rumblings. It must be the heat. And the travails of parenthood.
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