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

A number of monitorial high schools were organized in different parts of the United States, and it was even proposed that the plan should be adopted in the colleges.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

"You press me closely," with an amused scrutiny of the captain's monitorial face.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

“I know that, and I give you leave—there!” said Loman, with all the monitorial dignity he could assume.

From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines

When the monitorial schools were established they tended to restrict their membership in a similar manner, though not always able to do so.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson