After fifth grade I was supposed to go to the Czech gymnasium in Domažlice, as there was none in Teinitz. During my year in the local Czech high school, I had private lessons in Czech with slečna (Miss) Koptová, a retired teacher from one of the few old Czech families. The facade of her little house in the Czech section of town was just large enough for a window flanked by portraits of Božena Němcová and Karolina Světlá, the greatest Czech women writers of the nineteenth century. Slečna Koptovas methods were old fashioned, but I learned with her very quickly. She regularly gave me pages with texts full of grammatical and spelling mistakes, written in her beautiful handwriting, which I then had to correct. On my first three essays at the school I had grades of satisfactory, good and very good.
Source: Wilma and Georg Iggers, Two Lives in Uncertain Times, New York: Berghahn Books, 2006, p. 9