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Correspondence school   /kˌɔrəspˈɑndəns skul/   Listen
noun
Correspondence school  n.  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school may be used to include any educational institution or department for instruction by correspondence, as in a university or other educational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to various educational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some of which offer a large variety of courses in general and technical subjects, conducted by specialists.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Correspondence school" Quotes from Famous Books



... from paying the inevitable penalty of this weak heritage. The world has long shuddered over the future of the girl who marries a man to reform him; but think what it means to the future of the race if a superior girl, armed with correspondence school lessons in prenatal culture, marries a ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson



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