培育志趣，引导学生奔向地球科学大道

随着人类社会和科学技术的发展，尤其是中国国力的提升和教育的深化提高，教育改革，包括地学高等教育的改革，就更需进一步深化，以适应时代发展的需要。文章根据作者长期从事地学教学实践与科研的经历，针对2020年全国基础地质学教学会议关于普通地质学教学改革的精神，概括提出两点体会，一是关于普地教学目标和任务，二是涉及普地教学关键所在，供同行讨论。作者从地球科学基本特征和教学目标出发，提出普地教学的核心价值与重要性，进一步明确普地教学的关键在于教师队伍、教学定位与目标及教学内容与方法等三个方面。普通地质学的教学是地学高等教育中最基础、最关键的环节，其总体目标是提高地学教育的普适性，目的是培育学生的科学志趣，引导学生奔向地球科学大道。

Cultivate Interest and Promote Innovative Development

Facing challenges derived from progress of human society and science and technology, especially state’s development and education improvement of China, educational reform of high-education on geology becomes greatly urgent. Focusing on the topics of teaching reform of physical geology in the meeting of Geosciences Education 2020, we outline our viewpoints in two aspects based on long-term teaching practice and scientific research: 1. Aim and task of physical geology teaching; 2. Principal purposes for teaching physical geology. Beginning with characteristics of Earth science and its teaching, this paper proposes the core value and function of physical geology teaching and further discusses three key aspects for improving the teaching. The three key aspects concern teaching team, aim and positioning, and teaching contents and methods. In conclusion, the overall purpose for the teaching is to build up the broad foundation for students, cultivate and promote their interest in Earth science and, finally, lead them to devote themselves to innovation of Earth science.