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
Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc.
From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)
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 Walter, James Conway
When the monitorial schools were established they tended to restrict their membership in a similar manner, though not always able to do so.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
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)
