Andrew Bell, who lived from 27 March 1753 to 27 January 1832, was a Scottish Anglican priest and educationalist who pioneered the Madras System of Education, also known as mutual instruction or the monitorial system, in schools. He founded Madras College, a secondary school in St Andrews, and helped fund other schools. While in India as a chaplain to regiments of the East India Company, he was appointed superintendent of an orphan asylum in 1789 and put bright children in charge of those who were less bright. He was opposed to corporal punishment and used a system of rewards.
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This method was also known as "mutual instruction" or the "Bell-Lancaster method" after the British educators Andrew Bell and Joseph Lancaster, who independently promoted versions in which children had a tutorial role.
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