WE HAVE REACHED A POINT where it may be fruitful to turn attention away from any further constructive account and instead review and evaluate what has been accomplished. A thorough recapitulation is perhaps unnecessary. But there are two points in particular that merit reconsideration. First of all, it would be useful to ask whether it was a wise decision to avoid any simple, restrictive, and explicit definition of the system. But secondly, if it is indeed true that educational policy is essen¬tially policy for the system, and that a knowledge of the system would be useful, then, provided the account given so far is successful, it should lead us to some fresh perspectives in thinking about educational policy. Can it?