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
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 Noyes, John Humphrey
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.)
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
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
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