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

In 1806 the first monitorial school was opened in New York City, and, once introduced, the system quickly spread from Massachusetts to Georgia, and as far west as Cincinnati, Louisville, and Detroit.

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

Such, little though they cared for their much vaunted hero-martyr, were delighted with any policy which presented them with an opportunity of pursuing a career of misdemeanour under monitorial authority.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian

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

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)