The point of departure for this paper is Anne Phillips’ concept of equality as enactment. I identify two interpretations hereof. The first emphasizes immediate enactment but neglects the role of mediating institutions. This, I contend, severely limits its political effectiveness. The second highlights the importance of such institutions in sustaining and continually enacting equality among citizens. To illustrate the pitfalls of stressing an unmediated enactment, the study analyses the experiences from the post-war evolution of Sweden’s educational system. Subsequently, I expound the political-theoretical implications of the empirical findings and propose a more institutionally cohesive understanding of equality as enactment. I do this by engaging in a close dialogue with the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet and Hannah Arendt, one of Anne Phillips’ foremost sources of inspiration, particularly Arendts’s perspectives on education’s role in modern society and its correlation with the concept of the world.