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

In 1818 there were only one hundred and sixty-five thousand scholars in the monitorial schools—the new schools, which were being established under the auspices of the National Society, and the British and Foreign School Society.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

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

It is a monitorial school; those who are advanced in learning are to teach the others in religion, as well as secular knowledge.

From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel

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