Grace Notes

Lessons Learned at Bingo

In 1988, author Robert Fulgham wrote a collection of essays he named All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. That volume quickly earned a spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, where it remained for almost two years.

When I first heard about the book, I was intrigued by the title. By then I was in my thirties, and had been teaching for several years. It seemed to me that there wa…