monitorial
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- monitorially adverb
Etymology
Origin of monitorial
Example Sentences
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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
When the monitorial schools were established they tended to restrict their membership in a similar manner, though not always able to do so.
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
I’m afraid we shall have a regular monitorial row.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
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
Such, little though they cared for their much vaunted hero-martyr, were delighted with any policy which presented them with an opportunity of pursuing a career of misdemeanour under monitorial authority.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
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