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
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 James Conway Walter
“Where are you off to?” asked Fairbairn, with due monitorial solemnity, of that flighty youth; “don’t you know it’s nearly eight?”
From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
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 Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
He had not been seen since his escape from the monitorial fangs after morning school.
From The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
