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
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 Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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
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 Bell, Edward Allen
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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