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

In 1818 there were only one hundred and sixty-five thousand scholars in the monitorial schools—the new schools, which were being established under the auspices of the National Society, and the British and Foreign School Society.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

Lancaster and Bell introduced the monitorial system, by which one teacher could take charge of a large school, the older pupils teaching the younger ones.

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi

He also adopted the monitorial method, but, as a Quaker, omitting the Church teaching of the Bell schools. 

From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by Walter, James Conway

It is a monitorial school; those who are advanced in learning are to teach the others in religion, as well as secular knowledge.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel