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

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

“I know that, and I give you leave—there!” said Loman, with all the monitorial dignity he could assume.

From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines

The first Infant School was established under the direction of the Public School Society as the "Junior Department" of School No. 8, with a woman teacher in charge, and using monitorial methods.

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 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)