The Collaborative International Dictionary
Correspondence school \Cor`res*pond"ence school\ 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.
WordNet
n. a school that teaches nonresident students by mail
Usage examples of "correspondence school".
He also runs a children's academy, a Bible institute, a correspondence school, a seminary, and Liberty Baptist College itself, where 'leaders are trained for the generation to come, learning good character traits and how to become good moms and pops'.
I went to correspondence school and passed the bar a long time ago, when I was young and could sit on my ass for hours.
And there are equally effective parodies of correspondence school advertisements, T.
The first was to get Gerardo Almendres's International Correspondence School transmitter-receiver up and running.
To get more practice I also signed up for a correspondence school course, with International correspondence schools, and I must say they were good.
There was an ad on the front that said you could get an education in most anything you wanted at the La Salle Correspondence School in Chicago.
Before he sent his completed lesson to his instructor at the National Correspondence School for Private Detecting and Investigatory Acumen (NCSPDIA), he'd have to write up something to cover his period of unconsciousness, borrowing a few phrases from Lesson Eleven: Creative Invoicing.
His one and only ambition was to become a Pinkerton man, and he fully believed that once armed with the diploma of the correspondence school to which he paid half his weekly salary, it would be simply a matter of presenting it to the head of the detective agency to insure him an open-armed reception and an immediate appointment--didn't the prospectus of the school say so almost in so many words?