Why did Adam's plan to encourage advancements in literature, the arts, and science fail?

Congress did not support John Quincy Adams's ambitions to advance the arts and sciences. Congress was mostly made up of Democratic-Republicans (Quincy Adams was a Federalist) who believed in small government, so they were not willing to fund what Adams was proposing.

It encouraged people and shun light on them, that these things could be mastered and learned.