To the Editor of the "Nowri-Citiia Day News"
Sim—Replying io Sruvenr, if he has to submit all his test papers and difficulties to England for correction and reply I can quite understand his hesitancy in taking up a correspondence course. Ideed I think that the delay occasioned by the distance between London aiid the Far East has deterred many an ambitious student in Shanghai from uüdergoiüg a course of instruction by correspondence.
However, if your correspondent had read my letter through to the end, he would have noted that there is dt least one reputable cotréspohdence college operating in Shanghai. This College supplies locally the examination courses of one of the most successful coaching institutions in England and in addition retains in Shanghai a staff of qualified tutors who correct and mark students test Papers and submit prompt and full written replies to any queries raised; model answers are also supplied to all test questions and problems. So much for local coaching facilities.
The criticism advanced—by Sruvenr that correspondence tuition does not give an opportunity to asia questions is hardly correct. Actually ihe revelise is he case, as students are encouraged to submit their përsonal. difficulties io the local tutors who specially deal with all such matters by letter, or students may call personally if they so desire, In many cases students are reluctant to state their difficulties in class and welcome the opportunity of obtaining a written explanation without any publicity. However it will be found that a high-grade correspondence colütse, having been prepared on the experietice of coaching thousands of students of different types of mind, anticipates and solves almost every conceivable difficulty.
There is ro doubt that the finest teaching skill has been applied to modern business correspondence instruction, making it easy of mastery by the ordinary individual with the average education; indeed it has been so simplified that youths and girls who have just left school can be efficiently trained by this method.
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