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A micro-economic model of popu atiom growth is presented to assess the relationship between education and fertility. Om the basis of population growth evidence, the author presents the following opinions: (1) the potential of education as a policy instrument to influence family size is great but ignorance of the mechanisms through which education lay af!ect fertility is also large; (2) economic policies_that firectly influence wifes wages couple's contraceptive behavior, and the early health ana nutrition of children may be a more effective and quicker means of reducing family size than support of adult education; and (3) the trade-off that parents appear to make between the number of children they want and the lavestments they make in_each child may be the key to middle-and iong-term population policy in developing nations. The author concludes that the scarcity of economic resources makes continued research on policy instruments, like education, essential.