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
Both these remarkable men conceived independently the idea of a national system of popular education upon a voluntary basis; both concurred in extolling the merits of the monitorial system, which each claimed to have originated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
By carefully studying and following these directions any reasonably intelligent person could soon learn to become a successful teacher in a monitorial school.
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 number of New England cities, that already had other type schools, investigated the new monitorial plan and were impressed with its many important points of superiority over methods then in use.
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
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
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