monitorial
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In eighteenth-century America, one-room schoolhouses employed the monitorial method, in which older students evaluated the recitations of younger ones.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 8, 2014
By carefully studying and following these directions any reasonably intelligent person could soon learn to become a successful teacher in a monitorial school.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by J. D. (Jirah Dewey) Buck
In Teutonic lands, where the much better Pestalozzian ideas had become established, the monitorial system made practically no headway.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
I have received your letter—your moral lecture rather; and be assured, my dear, your monitorial lessons and advice shall be attended to.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster
