Oldrich Botlik (* 1951, Zlin) graduated from the Charles University in Prague with a PhD in Mathematics and has been earning his living as an educational consultant for the past twenty years. He participated in implementing a new system of financing primary and secondary education and the ExTra grants scheme for innovative teachers and schools. In addition, O. Botlik helped shape the principles of the national educational legislation. For 17 years he has been coauthoring the KALIBRO project, which provides teachers with feedback on their pupils' ability to use acquired knowledge and skills in new situations. In a tenyear cycle, he also collects various pupils' dreams about their ideal school. The first childbased reflection of schooling appeared in a major Czech magazine in 1992 under the title The School of My Dreams Is a School Without Pupils.

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