ENIn the beginning of 1970 teaching by means of correspondence gained wide recognition in many countries. Apart of becoming one of the ways of acquiring a certain standard of knowledge, it also became one of the forms of extra-education. Such ideas reached Lithuania and in 1973 a correspondence school of junior physicists “Photon” was established at Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute (currently Šiauliai University), Department of Physics. “Photon” school trainees value education, personal independence, and self-actualisation.