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
The unfortunate effects of the monitorial system upon English education show the reality of the service which this religious congregation rendered to the national pedagogy in France.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
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
Explain, on the basis of the English adult manufacturing conception of education, why monitorial instruction was hailed as "a new expedient, parallel and rival to the modern inventions in the mechanical departments."
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
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
