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How is an Education Act created? Is the country’s educational policy a result of such an act or does the policy create the act itself? We try to answer this question by comparing two Educational Acts in Romania: the first one, created in 1864 when the country’s name was still the United Principalities of Moldova and Walachia and one of the most recent, still in use for today’s public instruction in Romania, edited in 2010. If the first Education Act is mostly inspired by a trip of the future Minister through Europe in 1857 and 1858 and with strong influences of the Loi sur l’instruction publique of the Canton of Geneva from 1848, the second one is the result of a melting pot of educational and social policies after the Iron Curtain fall in Romania after December 1989. How are these acts applied? Do they still have elements in common?