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
Both these remarkable men conceived independently the idea of a national system of popular education upon a voluntary basis; both concurred in extolling the merits of the monitorial system, which each claimed to have originated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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
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 Levi Seeley
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
