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
Both these remarkable men conceived independently the idea of a national system of popular education upon a voluntary basis; both concurred in extolling the merits of the monitorial system, which each claimed to have originated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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
Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been checked at once; but, as it was, brute force the unlimited authority.
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
The boy was delighted to be instructed by the mistress of the violin, and she was as pleased with the honor of such monitorial duties to the son of a chief.
From The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth
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