I graduated from critique of contemporary burgeois schools
Zdeňka Horáčková, née Forštová, was born in 1947 in Pardubice and grew up in the village of Trnávka. After graduating from a grammar school in Mladá Boleslav she wasn‘t admitted to a university and istead spent two years taking a course in public education. At that point in time she became interested in sociology. She started studying it at a university in 1969, in the course of her studies she got married and gave birth to a son. In 1973 she began writing a diploma thesis on the topic of Process of Socialization of Adolescent Youth - a contribution to the question of values, value orientation and aspiration of pubescents. Prof. Milan Nakonečný should have been her thesis supervisor but unfortunately was fired from university after 1968. During her thesis defense, Zdeňka was paradoxically mostly helped by the opponent who rejected objections raised by the assigned supervisor and who praised her method. She defended the thesis in 1974, at a time when sociology was already renamed to „critique of contemporary burgeois schools“.
