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Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc.

The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology 1877

Whips and rods used in a kind of monitorial system by themselves had a great part in the education of these young aristocrats, and, as pain surely must do, pain not of bodily disease or wretched accidents, but as it were by dignified rules of art, seem to have refined them, to have made them observant of the minutest direction in those musical exercises, wherein eye and ear and voice and foot all alike combined.

Plato and Platonism Walter Pater 1866

Bell, Andrew, Dr (1753 – 1832): Anglican divine, born in St. Andrews, who introduced, first in Madras, the monitorial school system, in which more advanced pupils of good character taught less advanced ones.

Index of People 2009

[2] Southey was a supporter of Bell's new monitorial system of schooling, and had published a work advocating its adoption nationally: The Origin, Nature, and

Letter 312 2009

The congregational day schools arose, in part, to provide an alternative to the Christian-influenced public schools and to offer secular instruction of higher quality than could be provided by means of the “monitorial” system, then employed by the free public schools.

Education of Jewish Girls in the United States. 2009

Lancasterian, or monitorial, system of instruction was introduced

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

We, _e. g._, no longer entrust the instruction of the younger children in the school to the older, as was the custom under the monitorial system of Bell and Lancaster, and with the abolition of the pupil-teacher the last remnant of a system introduced at the beginning of the nineteenth century, as the only remedy to meet the dire educational necessities of the time, will have been removed.

The Children: Some Educational Problems Alexander Darroch

And again, in the closing sentences of the monitorial lecture of the Third Degree, the same sentiment is repeated, and we are told that by "the ever green and ever living sprig" the Mason is strengthened "with confidence and composure to look forward to a blessed immortality."

The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

Had he not once offered to quit from his monitorial work to help in the shop and had not his offer been firmly refused? ...

The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

At one time these documents say that 20 young men left the University on account of the monitorial system then in vogue there and entered Dickinson's School.

North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840 A Documentary History Charles Lee 1915