been better off if they were only funded by corporations and out the right jingles for the east india tea company the truth is those who rail against our today just don't understand art and it's a shame they weren't exposed to it as kids to be able to see just how art can impact people's lives especially as in times of crisis like we are today and that's why it's a worthwhile investment by a government. the impacts art had on a community are clear as the philadelphia department of human services noted in a study in the one nine hundred ninety s. poorer neighborhoods with high cultural participation are much more likely to have very low delinquency and truancy than other poor neighborhoods not only that study after study has shown that art classes in elementary schools improve critical thinking and problem solving and they give young students a sense of identity and belonging who knows how many future ancyl adams's or georgia o'keeffe says or norman rockwell's will never pick up a camera or a paintbrush because republicans defunded their schools art programs during the great depression president f

greg moritonson and if you know about his work and what you think about that and les the east india tea company which it doesn't exist today, i think it's still around in some other form. if you could comment on that. >> well, greg has certainly brought a lot of attention to afghanistan and the suffering of the afghani and pakistani people, but i think what i would say is i wish -- i'm not saying it as an author, but i wish everybody would read invisible history and crossing zero, the af-pak war for the simple reason what we deal with in our work is a way to try to understand how every school that is built in pakistan and afghanistan gets destroyed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. this is really where we, you know, view the work -- at some level i'd say he'd like to be put out of business and not have to keep rebilling those schools, and i think that's what our work is about is showing people how it actually happened so we can actually accomplish that. did you want to add something? >> no, that's fine. >> i actually have two questions i'd like