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
A great many were talking at once, and every tongue was engaged in discussing the propriety, in this instance, of any monitorial interference.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
To this superior invisible aid he owed his appointment, at the age of seven years, to be usher in a school, before the monitorial system of teaching was thought of.
From History of American Socialisms by Noyes, John Humphrey
That is true, because the scheme of the school is monitorial, in which the more advanced scholars instruct the others.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
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)
