Defn: Of or pertaining to the monitorial system of instruction followed by Joseph Lancaster, of England, in which advanced pupils in a school teach pupils below them.
Further, the same causes which reduced the control of masters, also embarrassed the upper boys in their monitorial duties.
The monitorial plan never rested upon any educational theory; it was simply a makeshift, a rough-and-ready expedient for overcoming the practical difficulty caused by the dearth of competent teachers.
The rapid development of the voluntary school system was no doubt greatly facilitated by the monitorial plan of teaching, upon which Bell and Lancaster equally relied.
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.
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.
A great many were talking at once, and every tongue was engaged in discussing the propriety, in this instance, of any monitorial interference.
The opposition to monitorial authority which Harpour had commenced, and Kenrick abetted, did not pass away at once; it left a large amount of angry feeling in the minds of numerous boys who had, each of them, influence in their several ways.
He was clever, good-humoured, and obliging, he was a fine cricketer and lawn tennis player, he was rarely overtaken in any breach of school rules and he was decidedly lenient in the use of his monitorial authority.
The two worked independently, but Lancaster was the first to apply the system of monitorial teaching on a large scale.
He had not been seen since his escape from the monitorial fangs after morning school.
The complete and accurate ritual of the First Seven Masonic Degrees of the Blue Lodge and Chapter, by a Past High Priest, with allMonitorial and Scripture Readings and the Secret Work fully illustrated.
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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.
He also adopted the monitorial method, but, as a Quaker, omitting the Church teaching of the Bell schools.
In England the beginnings of teacher-training came with the introduction of monitorial instruction, both the Bell and the Lancaster Societies (p.
Show that a report on modern classroom organization would present advantages over the monitorial plan, comparable with those outlined by the Boston Report (312) comparing the monitorial and individual plans.
Such a system of training was now discovered and applied, in the form of mutual or monitorial instruction, and was hailed as "a new expedient, parallel and rival to the modern inventions in the mechanical departments.
A number of monitorialhigh schools were organized in different parts of the United States, and it was even proposed that the plan should be adopted in the colleges.
Explain, on the basis of the English adult manufacturing conception of education, whymonitorial instruction was hailed as "a new expedient, parallel and rival to the modern inventions in the mechanical departments.
By carefully studying and following these directions any reasonably intelligent person could soon learn to become a successful teacher in a monitorial school.
When the monitorial schools were established they tended to restrict their membership in a similar manner, though not always able to do so.
This rising interest in education was greatly stimulated by the introduction from England, about this time, of a new and what for the time seemed a wonderful system for the organization of education, the Lancastrian monitorial plan.
Unfortunately at Roslyn themonitorial system was not established.
Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been checked at once; but, as it was, brute force the unlimited authority.
The famous Lancasterian system--that of monitorial schools--discountenanced the rod, but the forms of punishment were not wholly above criticism.
It also appears that this unnamed school dame practised the monitorial system a century or more before Bell and Lancaster made their claims of inventing it.
Loman, with all the monitorial dignity he could assume.
This action on the part of the Fifth, therefore, was as good as a usurpation of monitorial rights, and that the Sixth were not disposed to stand.
And without doubt I looked proudly on my work in the Monitorial Council: we had been strict but not harsh, reserved but not aloof, reformers but not iconoclasts--statesmen to a man.
Leaving the book on the table, he unslung his gown from his shoulder, pulled it over his cassock and sank into the great carved chair of Ockley in the middle of the Monitorial Council, facing the school.
Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been effectually checked; but, as it was, brute force had unlimited authority.
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.
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.
