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
By carefully studying and following these directions any reasonably intelligent person could soon learn to become a successful teacher in a monitorial school.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
Such, little though they cared for their much vaunted hero-martyr, were delighted with any policy which presented them with an opportunity of pursuing a career of misdemeanour under monitorial authority.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Ian Hay
I’m afraid we shall have a regular monitorial row.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
He also adopted the monitorial method, but, as a Quaker, omitting the Church teaching of the Bell schools.
From A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time by James Conway Walter
