History
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences is the direct descendant
of the original Johns Hopkins University. Today, offering comprehensive
undergraduate education and graduate training, it is
the core institution of the Johns Hopkins complex of schools,
centers and institutes. More than 125 years after the University’s
founding, the Krieger School still follows the guiding principles
of Hopkins's visionary first president, Daniel Coit Gilman. The
school’s adherence to those ideals does not reflect cautiousness
or entrenchment, however. Rather, Gilman's educational precepts,
by definition, keep the Krieger School not just up to date but
actually at the forefront of knowledge.
“The best investigators are usually those who have also the responsibilities of instruction, gaining thus the incitement of colleagues, the encouragement of pupils and the observation of the public. ”
— Daniel Coit Gilman
First President
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The
plan that Gilman devised and began to carry out in 1876 established
Johns Hopkins as the nation's first research university--that
is, an institution in which every faculty member was actively
engaged in original investigations. Gilman dismissed the notion
that teaching and research are separate endeavors; he believed
that success in one depended on success in the other. "The
best teachers are usually those who are free, competent and willing
to make original researches in the library and the laboratory," Gilman
said. "The best investigators are usually those who have
also the responsibilities of instruction, gaining thus the incitement
of colleagues, the encouragement of pupils, the observation of
the public." The realization of Gilman's philosophy at Hopkins,
and at other institutions that later attracted Hopkins-trained
scholars, revolutionized higher education in America, leading
to the modern research university system.
Today, each of the
School's faculty members is expected to spend as much time on
research as on teaching. As a result, inquiry and the creation
of new knowledge are the engine and fuel that drive both instruction
and learning in the school.
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