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between two hundred and six hundred students were presided
over by one master. In Bell's school in .A'ladras, there were two
hundred students taught by "teachers" ranging in age from seven
to fourteen years. In these schools, there were monitors of classes
 

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Some rewards of merit, as this one printed in Boston in 1819, had
"monetary" value and could be traded for toys.

and assistant monitors, reading monitors, monitors of order, dic¬
tators, lesson fixers, street, door, yard, ventilation, fuel and fire
monitors, attendance monitors, sweepers, pointing stick fixers,
etc. An army of monitors conducted a well designed machine.
The industrial revolution was brought to the classroom. Every
action had to be efficient, and there was furniture and teaching
equipment to enhance the process.

Furthermore, the Madras and Lancasterian systems recognized
that not only was there a need to keep the students busy at all
times, but there was a need to stimulate them as well. To keep the
well regulated machine running at high speed, the pupils needed
to be motivated. In the chapter "On Emulation, Places and Prizes"
in his Account of the FAinhiirgh Sessional School (1833) John
AVood wrote, "For ourselves we very much incline to the opinion
that 'a cook might as well resolve to make bread without fermen¬
tation, as a pedagogue to carry on school without emulation: it
mu.st be a sad doughy lump without this vivifying principle.' "