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

Further, the same causes which reduced the control of masters, also embarrassed the upper boys in their monitorial duties. 

From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by Skrine, John Huntley

“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

Explain, on the basis of the English adult manufacturing conception of education, why monitorial instruction was hailed as "a new expedient, parallel and rival to the modern inventions in the mechanical departments."

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

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 Foster, Hannah Webster