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

This was an improvement on the waning monitorial training system previously in use.

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)

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

“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