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
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
The first Infant School was established under the direction of the Public School Society as the "Junior Department" of School No. 8, with a woman teacher in charge, and using monitorial methods.
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
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
I’m afraid we shall have a regular monitorial row.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
