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

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

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

“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

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

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