It is interesting to note, however, that in both France and England the monitorial schools quickly rose to popularity, but almost as quickly disappeared. There are several reasons for its disappearance. In France, at least, the monitorial schools suffered from their association with liberal and Protestant sponsorship. But it is also significant that the promise of rapid instruction which they offered may well have appealed only to those who thought of schooling primarily as a way of teaching skills. For those who felt, on the other hand, that schooling was intended to socialize, to discipline the children and withdraw them from home and street, there was no virtue in brevity.

— Schooling in Western Europe by Mary Jo Maynes (Page 77)