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

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

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

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

He had not been seen since his escape from the monitorial fangs after morning school.

From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines

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