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December 19th, 2007 issue

Travel by train

I suppose it’s sacrilegious to grin a little on reading the article by Mark Baker about Holešovice rail station now bearing the name of Franz Kafka (“Truly Kafkaesque,” Opinion, Dec. 5–11).
Did he not suffer sufficiently in his short life by illness and now by his spirit, too?
As Pan Baker says, it could have been even worse if it had been decided to give Hlavní Nádraži the honor.
It is possible that I will travel to Frankfurt am Main in January, and this article inspires me to travel possibly by train from Franz Kafka station. I should mention in all fairness to Czech Railways that the Bahnhof in Frankfurt is not much better, or at least it wasn’t when I was last there about five years ago.
It is my experience too, to have “The Trial” when trying to buy a rail ticket using Czech that is not fluent.
B. Harris
Průhonice
Super power
Czechs, please be independent and live independently (“Missile command,” News, April 12–18). Do not let the Americans make you cave.
You are now sovereign after throwing the Russians out, so do not trade Americans for Russians.
These countries both are the same and ready to fight their battles on the shoulders of other innocent nations. I would like you to choose independent paths.
Imdad Ullah
Islamabad, Pakistan

Education goals
Even in a system where a college education is free, only the most talented students (or best connected) can find their way to higher education (“Government mulls university tuition,” Schools and Education, Nov. 14–20). This leaves countless others outside the system.
If the goal is to gain more students and more graduates, moving to a pay-for-education system makes a lot of sense and will expand the opportunity for higher education to the masses. Everyone who wants to go to college should have the opportunity, even if they must pay their own way.
The Czech Republic will benefit greatly from expanding access to higher education. I can imagine many more colleges and universities will be built as a result.
John Kennedy
Sewell, N.J.
Global community
It’s sad but true — I never experienced more racism than when I grew up in the former communist Czechoslovakia.
Unfortunately, the negative attitudes toward foreigners and people of different ethnicities prevail in the Czech Republic today.
I think Czechs need to realize that with the global economy and the movement of people throughout the European Union, they will in the coming years encounter more and more people from different countries and races.

Karel Vrany
Orlando, Fla.

 

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