What Did You Learn
Did you go to school this morning
Did you sit there in the classroom
Were you sure to pay attention
Were your ears both open wide
Did you listen to your teachers
Did they make some good suggestions
Did you think about their questions
Could you see the other side
What did you learn
What did you learn
Did you learn about your neighbors
Could you understand them better
When you heard their different stories
The histories in their names
How the dreams that unite us
Cross lines of class and color
Give us strength to know each other
How we’re different and the same
What did you learn
What did you learn
Did you learn about the history
Of the working men and women
In the office and the factory
The classroom and the field
Did you learn how hard we’ve fought
To get the dignity that’s owed us
Do you understand our dreams
Will you help to make them real
What did you learn
What did you learn
I dreamed about a country
I heard of in my childhood
The streets are paved with justice
The schools are built with care
The leaders of the nation
Are the teachers and the learners
The questions and the answers
Are the road that takes us there
What did you learn
What did you learn
What did you learn
What did you learn