Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838) led a movement, based in England, to establish schools that used what he called the Monitorial System, sometimes called the "Lancasterian" or "Lancastrian" System, in which more advanced students taught less advanced ones, enabling a small number of adult masters to educate large numbers of students at low cost in basic and often advanced skills. Portrait by J. Hazlitt, in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
From about 1798 to 1830 The Lancasterian monitorial System was highly influential, but was displaced by the "modern" system of grouping students into age groups taught using the lecture method, led by such educators as Horace Mann, and later inspired by the assembly-line methods of Frederick Taylor, although Lancaster's methods continue to be used and rediscovered today.
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