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
I’m afraid we shall have a regular monitorial row.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been effectually checked; but, as it was, brute force had unlimited authority.
From Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
Further, the same causes which reduced the control of masters, also embarrassed the upper boys in their monitorial duties.
From Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth by John Huntley Skrine
To this superior invisible aid he owed his appointment, at the age of seven years, to be usher in a school, before the monitorial system of teaching was thought of.
From History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes
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