A Really Good Question (A Stumper)

"If America was better educated before we established a Department of Education than it has been since, why do we continue to have such a department?" (Angelo M. Codevilla, The Ruling Class, p. 83).

Now that's a good question. Can anyone answer this? Hurry! Someone get all the smart people, like maybe a committee of Harvard and Stanford graduates from among the Ruling Class, to help us with this challenging, even puzzling question. Till that committee forms, we shall live with perpetual uncertainty, wandering in a labyrinth of our small minds.