Did Stephen Hawking say the most important knowledge he learned was in nursery?

Question

According to this website (in Chinese, my translation to English follows, original Chinese below)

In 1988, 76 Nobel prize winners gathered together, including the 46 year old Hawking. The interviewer asked Mr Hawking:

"In which university or laboratory did you learn the most important knowledge?"

Hawking replied:

"I learned the most important knowledge in nursery. Give half of my stuff to my friends. Don't take things that are not mine. Keep tidy… all I learned are these."

"Hawking: Everything I learned in kindergarten is a hundred times more important than any university", Sohu.com, 2019-12-25 19:00 https://www.sohu.com/a/362761642_611018

Original:

1988年，76名世界顶尖的科学家们齐聚一堂，包括当时年仅46岁的霍金。 记者问霍金先生：“您在哪所大学、哪个实验室学到了您认为最重要的东西？”

霍金回答：“我在幼儿园里学到了一生中最重要的东西：把自己的东西分一半给小伙伴，不是自己的东西不拿；东西要 放整齐；吃饭要洗手；做错了事情要表示歉意；学习要多思考；要仔细观察大自然……从根本上说，我学到的东西就是这些。”

Did Stephen Hawking ever say anything resembling this during an interview in a major event?

Answer 1

As per the comment by @GEdgar, a book was published in 1986 , two years before the Hawking attribution in Chinese, that contains the following poem :

Most of what 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:

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 cold milk are good for you./Live a balanced life -/Learn some and think some/And draw and paint and sing and dance/And play and work everyday some./Take a nap every afternoon./When you go out into the world,/Watch out for traffic,/Hold hands and stick together./Be aware of wonder.

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum

The wording and the sentiments are very similar to that quoted and the book was published two years before the supposed attribution.

So Stephen Hawking, if it can be proved that he attended the Nobel Laureate's function, may have quoted the poem or may have been inspired by the publication to speak in a similar vein himself.

And, suggested in comment (which I did not think of myself) the finding of @GEdgar may suggest that Professor Hawking did, indeed, share the sentiment of Fulghum's book and poem but at another time and in another place.

Thus we have support for the existence of the words and sentiment, two years before the attribution, documented in 1986 : but we have not (yet) fixed the time and place in which reference was made to them.