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Discusses educational changes in the Czech Republic. President Vaclav Havel's commitment to humanize schools; Normative assumptions underlying educational change in the country; Need for the development of a stronger sense of Czech identity; Changes in teacher education; Realization that the advent of political independence does not end cultural or economic dependency.

Opinion. Argues that to learn to read and write we need to understand the world around us including our own lives as a text to be interpreted. What would contribute to the decline in literacy; Concern in schools and society for scribal literacy which is likely to be losing battle if the importance of lay literacy is overlooked.

The article presents the authors' insights regarding the corporatization of universities in Canada. The authors state that the universities have been transformed to meet the needs of the corporate market. They cite the analysis of Paul Hamel and John Valleau on the threat to collegial governance dues to the establishment of Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. They also add that the focus on solutions to resource constraint hinders the necessary actions to the situation.