Hough Street Elementary School is an elementary school in Barrington, Illinois. Hough Street School's gifted program has won many Knowledge Master Open awards, placing first in the world numerous times. The school is located in Barrington School District 220, being on 300 South Hough Street, for which it is named for.
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“If you would learn to write, ‘t is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts you must frequent the public square. The people, and not the college, is the writer’s home.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)