In their report on Queensway the year before the study, school inspectors had commented that the school ticked with clockwork efficiency." Both schools, we found, were indeed rationally organized, as one principal put it, to engineer success." Clearly in this respect the schools were operating as microcosms of the larger modernizing culture and the principals enthusiastically acting as change agents. As we shall argue, however, though the clockwork had in many respects been imported from outside, the ticking and the efficiency was a school accomplishment. Similarly, there were ample signs in the formal curriculum, in Extra Curricula Activities (ECAs), in ceremonies such as the daily flag-raising, and in symbols such as the prominent photographs of the President and the First Lady that the broader societal cultural mix had stamped itself on the two schools, much as it had done elsewhere in other schools on the island. Of particular note were the uniformed ECA groups, such as the police, the St Johns Ambulance, and other cadet corps.