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
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 F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
The monitorial system of instruction, coming at the time it did, exerted a very important influence in awakening interest in and a sentiment for schools.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
I have received your letter—your moral lecture rather; and be assured, my dear, your monitorial lessons and advice shall be attended to.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Hannah Webster Foster
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 H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
