ИСТИНА

In 1978 G. Donnay and J.D.H.Donnay reviewed the aims and the problems of a crystallography course given to geology students. In this context the experience in teaching of crystallography in Geology Department of Moscow State University in recent decades as well as of the public lectures in crystallography in the frame of the education program of ISF is discussed. The failure rate in the course is basically the same (~10% in McGill University in 1978 as compared with ~12% after 1st attempt in 1998 in Moscow State University).