在大学地质系中,地质科学的发展很少是与逼真的示范教具适当改进相配合的。因此,教育变得比较抽象和空洞.严重地有损于现代毕业生去成功地完成实际地质工作者的实践任务的能力。岩石百科全书已经发展为一部许多成套的标本和百科全书词汇以及全部图片相结合的书籍。它可以用来作为一种现实的资料来源或作为一独立研究的课程内容的一部分.自从利用图片和标本与语言和文字相结合进行教学这一革命思想出现以来,至今只不过经历了四个世纪,这是很少被人了解的.上一个世纪和本世纪初,是大学中使用天然物质(矿物、岩石、土壤)进行地质学教学的黄金时代。由学生投集了学院博物馆的陈列标本,摆设了教学展品,并把照片图册的发展放在了一个相当重要的位置。大量地质物质实例的直观认识取得了很大的教育成就。在第二次世界大战之后,几种现代教学工具得到了迅速的发展,例如彩色幻灯片、电影、高架放映机、电视,甚至出现一些新的教科书。但从上世纪以来,获取、整理和使用标本的方法却没有多少变化。几个附加的因素,如学生——教授比例数的增大和技术人员的短缺,都促使标本使用机会的减少。所有这些都反过来影响着应用地质学领域内地质教育的质量。 In the Department of Geology of the University, the development of geosciences is seldom associated with the appropriate improvement of lifelike teaching aids. As a result, education becomes more abstract and empty, severely detrimental to the ability of modern graduates to successfully accomplish the practical tasks of physical geologists. The Rock Encyclopedia has evolved into a book that combines many complete sets of specimens with encyclopedic vocabulary and all the pictures. It can be used as a source of factual data or as part of an independently researched curriculum that has so far survived only four centuries since the advent of revolutionizing the use of pictures and specimens in combination with language and writing , Seldom understood, and the last century and the beginning of this century was the golden age of teaching geology in the universities using natural substances (minerals, rocks, soils). By the students voted collections of Museum Museum exhibits, display of educational exhibits, and the development of photo album on a very important position. The intuitive understanding of a large number of geological material examples made great educational achievements. After World War II several modern teaching tools were rapidly developed, such as color slides, films, overhead projectors, television and even new textbooks. However, the methods used to obtain, organize and use specimens have not changed much since the last century. Several additional factors, such as an increase in the student-faculty ratio and a shortage of technicians, have led to a reduction in the chance of specimen usage. All of these in turn affect the quality of geo-education in applied geology.