Following Professor Michael W. Apple’s keynote address at “Cultural Legacy and Educational Institutions: An International Symposium on Chinese Schools in Southeast Asia” on 17 August 2018, he was interviewed by a former student Associate Professor Leonel Lim from the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The interview touched on a number of theoretical issues around the ideological and material conditions of schools and the relations between language and power. These insights were used to frame a discussion around the challenges surrounding Singapore’s education system, the role of the public intellectual, and the place of Chinese language and culture in Singapore and the region. This chapter, Culture, Identity, and Education Policy, presents key portions of the interview.