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
It is a monitorial school; those who are advanced in learning are to teach the others in religion, as well as secular knowledge.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
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 Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
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)
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
