een insisting upon
real professional training for teachers but other departments are
deplorably slow in cooperating.

In order to avoid becoming entangled in abstractions, we may choose a
specific instance to show the difficulties in the way of securing the
correct _kind_ of preparation, even though the quantity is guaranteed.
The Zoology Department (I choose this department neither because it is
worse nor better than any other, but because I am better acquainted
with the content of its courses) makes the following requirements for
the Teacher's Recommendation:

General Zoology
Invertebrate Zoology -- an advanced course which omits all
consideration of insects, and all
discussion of parasitic forms.
Vertebrate Zoology -- mainly a course in comparative morphology,
which gives no field knowledge of California
vertebrates, the most essential thing for
the high school teacher.

and one subject from each of the following groups,

Group I
Comparative Anatomy.
Cytology -- basic principles must be understood by the teacher
but he should not have to spend one whole half year
to acquire them.
Embryology -- the above is also true for this course.

Group II.
Biology of Water Supplies -- this course is primarily for
sanitary engineers.
Protozoology -- All that is necessary of this could be
incorporated in a general course.
Parasitology -- essential for health instruction and for
illustration of certain biological principles.

Group III.
Experimental Zoology } combination of these valuable.
Animal Behavior }
Heredity, Evolution, and Eugenics -- this course is very essential
for _any_ teacher.

(Required in the fifth year, the Teachers' Course, some work in
research, and practice teaching.)

Taken as a whole, the chief criticism to be made is that the subject
has been so subdivided to insure no overlapping of courses, that it
becomes necessary to take every course in order to obtain a well
rounded preparation in the field. This requires more time than any
individual can devote to it, for he must also have preparation in
Botany, Physiology, and Bacteriology and Hygiene, and in these
departments