I Know Something Good about You

Wouldn’t this old school be better
If the teachers we meet would say
“I know something good about you!”
And treat us just that way?

Wouldn’t it be fine and dandy
If teachers look with eyes so true
And carried with it this assurance –
“Kid, I know something good about you!”?

Wouldn’t school life be a lot more happy
If the good that is in me
Were the only things you’ll remember
No matter how difficult this may be?

Wouldn’t life be a lot more heavenly
If we praised the good we see?
For there’s such a lot of goodness
In the worst of you and me!

Wouldn’t it be nice to practice
This noble way of thinking, too:
You know something good about me;
I know something good about you?