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Correspondence school

noun

A school that teaches nonresident students by mail.

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"Correspondence school" Quotes from Famous Books

... established in 1876 and now published from headquarters in Cleveland, is indicative of the ambitions of the membership, for its avowed aim is to "make a specialty of educational matter for locomotive enginemen and other railroad employees." An attempt was even made in 1908 to conduct a correspondence school, under the supervision of the editor and manager of the magazine, but after three years this project was discontinued because it ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

... his own conclusions; and when it came to Botany, we found that either one of them could get a more comprehensive idea of the habits of growing plants from weeding a ten-acre lot than he could get out of a four years' course at a Correspondence School. The result was that when he came to graduate and go out into the world he was ready for business, and didn't have to serve as an Office-Boy on a salary of nothing a week for seventy-five or a hundred years before he was able ...

— The Autobiography of Methuselah • John Kendrick Bangs