My "listen and learn" tour

This is a cheap post, but I want to make sure I'm not missing something.
I lifted it from my previous post, a bit ranty even for me.

If anyone can show me Arne Duncan, our national Secretary of Education, equating public education with maintaining a functional democracy (as opposed to maintaining global economic standing) I'd be much obliged.

Thank you.

The photo is from the DOE website, in public domain--
the crude cartoon ballon is my first attempts at this using GIMP.