Correspondence school

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A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction beingbased on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers writtenby the student in answer to the questions or requirements of thesesheets. In the broadest sense of the term correspondence school maybe used to include any educational institution or department forinstruction by correspondence, as in a university or othereducational bodies, but the term is commonly applied to variouseducational institutions organized on a commercial basis, some ofwhich offer a large variety of courses in general and technicalsubjects, conducted by specialists.