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

As a result of the introduction of the Lancastrian and monitorial systems of instruction the enrollment was further increased and the general tone of the school was improved.

From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Woodson, Carter Godwin

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.)

Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been checked at once; but, as it was, brute force the unlimited authority.

From Eric by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)

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)