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
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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
It is a monitorial school; those who are advanced in learning are to teach the others in religion, as well as secular knowledge.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
A number of monitorial high schools were organized in different parts of the United States, and it was even proposed that the plan should be adopted in the colleges.
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.)
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