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
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
In particular it extended and improved Sunday Schools, encouraged the formation of charity-schools and schools of industry, and later gave much aid in establishing the new monitorial schools.
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
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 F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
As the numbers increased he established a monitorial system, by which many of the lesser breaches of discipline were dealt with by the boys themselves.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell
