- Docendo discimus
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Docendo discimus, (Latin by teaching, we learn). Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) says in his letters to Lucilius Junior that we are learning if we teach (epistulae morales I, 7, 8). Docendo discimus is the motto of the following institutions:
- Stranmillis University College in Belfast, Northern Ireland
- the University of Chichester in West Sussex, England
- Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington
- Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont
- Gillingham School in Dorset, England
- Novosibirsk State Technical University in Novosibirsk, Russia
- Polotsk State University in Polotsk, Belarus
- Expeditionary Training Group (Navy), Joint Expeditionary Base, Little Creek, Virginia
- Dnipropetrovsk National University in Ukraine
- the Department of Computer Science at the West University of Timisoara
- "Christiaan Huygens", a student club for the exact sciences within the Utrecht Student Corps
References
- Heimbach, Elizabeth. Latin Everywhere, Everyday: A Latin Phrase Workbook. Bolchazy-Carducci: 2004. ISBN 978-0865165724.
- Stone. Jon, R. The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings. Routledge: 2004. ISBN 978-0415969086.
Categories:- Latin mottos
- Latin philosophical phrases
- Vermont State Colleges
- Queen's University Belfast
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