Most, if not all, scholars thought the song meant that the children were being sent to learn reading and writing.

At a young age, he was sent to Gothenburg to learn a trade.

After graduation, most students are sent abroad to learn more.

Tonight's information was exactly what he had been sent to learn.

Children were often sent to learn reading and writing from any nearby neighbor who had those skills.

And Boeing, facing serious production problems of its own, has sent more than 300 people here to learn how it's done.

To make up for the deficit, young people are being sent to learn the trade in Turkey.

I was sent there to learn to read and write.

In April 1913 he was sent to learn to fly.

Later she was sent to the countryside to learn from the peasants.