monitorial
Example Sentences
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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
He had not been seen since his escape from the monitorial fangs after morning school.
From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines
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)
“Where are you off to?” asked Fairbairn, with due monitorial solemnity, of that flighty youth; “don’t you know it’s nearly eight?”
From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines
This was an improvement on the waning monitorial training system previously 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
