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
Had he not once offered to quit from his monitorial work to help in the shop and had not his offer been firmly refused?…
From The Foolish Lovers by Ervine, St. John G. (St. John Greer)
A number of New England cities, that already had other type schools, investigated the new monitorial plan and were impressed with its many important points of superiority over methods then in use.
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
The unfortunate effects of the monitorial system upon English education show the reality of the service which this religious congregation rendered to the national pedagogy in France.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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 Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
