Abstract
The purpose of the AGT symposium introduced by this paper is to examine critically the course content of elementary mineralogy, as taught in American colleges and universities, and to seek for common agreement on the beginning of an articulate philosophy concerning the aims and status of this course in the geology curriculum. The writer feels personally that elementary mineralogy needs to be broadened through greater stress on fundamentals and through closer co-ordination with other parts of geology. Only in this way can it occupy more meaningfully its rightful place as one of the most basic and useful of all geology courses. Mineralogy is a fundamental, as well as a descriptive, part of geological science. It should be so regarded and so taught in the elementary course.
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