Correspondence School by W. E. Howell

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 1, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 34.

Correspondence School

By W. E. Howell

IN harmony with an action taken at its recent session, the General Conference has enlarged the work of its Educational Department by the organization of a correspondence school. For the sake of effectiveness and economy, this school will make use of the machinery already set in operation by the Educational and Young People’s Departments, and will therefore be located in Washington, D. C.

The purpose of the school is to aid two classes of people; first, those who for any reason are detained at their homes and are not actively engaged in denominational work. This class the Correspondence School will carry until they may be able to enter one of our regular schools. The second class includes those who are already in the harness, but desire to become more competent in their special calling or to improve their general education.

The general policy will be that of cooperation and not of competition with the other schools of our educational system. On one hand, the Correspondence School will act as a feeder to our colleges, academies, and intermediate schools; on the other, it will do a work of extension or of supplementing what a student has already done in the usual way. Credits given by the Correspondence School will be accepted by our regular schools.

The cost of tuition for lessons by correspondence will range from $10 to $15 for work equivalent to one study for nine months in our resident schools, the student paying the postage both ways. The work will be on a basis of forty lessons a course, and the preparation and recitation of one lesson a week. The school will furnish recitation paper and return envelopes. Work will be begun October 1.

For the first year, the Board has decided to offer the following subjects:

Bible—

Academic Bible Doctrines.

New Testament (Life of Christ).

History—

United States.

General.

Church.

English—

Applied Grammar (Use of words, common faults of speech, pronunciation).

Foundations of Rhetoric (Sentence-building, punctuation, short themes, figures of speech).

Advanced Rhetoric and Journalism.

Greek—

New Testament (Elements, use, and interpretation of words and phrases, selected readings).

Mathematics—

Complete Arithmetic.

Elementary Bookkeeping.

Pedagogy—

School Management and Methods.

Science—

Physiology and Hygiene.

Will all who are interested please write the Principal a postal card at once, indicating which of the foregoing subjects they desire to take up, that we may gain some idea of which are in most urgent demand, and make our preparations accordingly. If any subject not on this list is specially desired, please indicate that also on the little postal card, and it will be taken into consideration. Look for future announcements in the Review and elsewhere. Address, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

W. E. Howell, Principal.