The gymnasium which I visited from 1951 through 1954... it was decided that I wouldn't go to... I would attend the university to study botany. Botany, but not as a professional botanist, but as a teacher. My very naive thinking was at that time that I could be both, that I could be a teacher and a botanist. Many of the professors at the gymnasium in the older times, were that kind. Most of the studies on the flora of Silesia, of Czechoslovakia were done by these kind of people; it was a hobby for them. They were teachers of biology and in their free time they were registering the plants in the different areas, so I wanted to be of the same kind. I thought it's not fair to be a scientist and be paid for it, to me it looked like it was always fun. And I didn't think I should be paid for having fun so I wanted to have an occupation where I could... which I could be paid for and then on my free time be a botanist. So I applied to the university which was directed toward educating teachers. I sent the application to a different school than I normally should have done... the closest such university, to my area where I was born was in Olomouc or in Brno. Olomouc and Brno, both in Moravia, so most of the students who went from Silesia went to either of these two universities and I was expected to do the same thing.