I am an Australian. I watched the speech by Dr. Carsen. It was moving as it was sound. He spoke of the need for education with an almost reverence.
His mother , one of 24 children was herself married at 13. They lived in grinding poverty. She saw to it that her sons were educated by insisting they read two booka a week and then right a report on those books to her. She critically studied those reports to engender ever greater desire in the boys to read more on all sorts of topics. She also could not read herself but they didnt know that.
He spoke of laws 200 years ago that said it was illegal to educate a slave particularly in reading..... why because reading liberated..
Some of the comments made of his speech criticised him for 'having a go' (as we say) at President Obama. He was not having a go at him he was openly and decently referring to the probs faced by America today and that is the use of free speech for honourable purpose.
Education is feared by those who would control. I leave this to you all to ponder.