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[ewx]

[Poll #1011995]

Leave a comment with the motto (and translation if not English).

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[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

ex corde caritas. The school officially translate it as "love from the heart", though I suspect one could make a case (both etymologically and ideologically) for charity from the heart.

[emperor]

Caritas is the Latin used for Divine love, cf Amor. Loving-kindness is a common liturgical translation these days.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Ditior Qia Doctior (or something like that)
Greater because More Learned (or something like that)

[emperor]

Faire sans dire, meaning literally "to do without speaking", also rendered as "actions not words", "work without seeking praise", or "do it, don't talk about it".

I went to Tiffin School, which even has a Wikipedia article, despite being a state school.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

My state school has a WP article too (and I don't think it's all that surprising that any school should do really).

[j4.livejournal.com]

Our motto was fais ce que doit advienne que pourra, which I believe means "Do what you should, come what may".

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Studio Floremus, by study we flourish. (17th century grammar school turned comprehensive in the 1970s.)

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

So hateth she derknesse

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

I think my (high) school used to have a Latin motto when it was founded, but they seem to have dropped it now. Precumably to vanish up their arses and be all modern and such.

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

Ah, no, I tell a lie; it does have a motto, which appeared on the school crests on blazers and such, but it's English: "The utmost for the highest". Not sure you could pick a better soundbite for my destiny of executive burnout at 25 if you tried; clearly they achieve what their motto suggests.

[hazyjayne.livejournal.com]

My school was not posh enough to have a motto ;)

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

Mine was nowhere near posh, but we had "E pluribus unum" ("one from the many", or summat).

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

School A: Actions not Words (a Suffragette motto)

School B: Porta vacat culpa (The gate is free from Blame: Ovid)

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

Per Ardua Ad Alta at Calder High in Mytholmroyd (by hard work to the heights). I know it has a WP article because it's on my watchlist and I've made a few changes to it. It was one of the the first ever comprehensive schools and appeared in the Guiness Book of Records for a few years for being as such. I'm sure most schools go for mottos that reflect what they'd like the kids to do rather than what they actually do, although I haven't seen one yet with a motto of "sit down, shut up and behave" in any language.

[k425.livejournal.com]

I think the motto describes perfectly how to get anywhere in Calderdale. It's all heights, it's going to be hard work!

[mair_in_grenderich]

I think my junior school motto was something like Agi Quod Agis, and meant something about doing one's best.

My secondary school motto was Non Sibi Sed Omnibus, Not for self but for all. Made a change from all those "strive for the stars" things.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

"Always use the bus"?

[fanf]

Bryanston's motto is et nova et vetera, both new and old.

My family motto is res non verba, which I think can be translated as "actions not words" like some of the others mentioned here.

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

St Catz (1963) has the motto "Nova et vetera", too.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Domine dirige nos; Lord, steer us.

[emperor]

From which I infer your school was run by the Corporation of London?

[songster.livejournal.com]

Esto quod es - "Be what you are". A singularly useless exhortation, I've always thought. Presumably the intent is something about finding the Inner You. But what happens if you find the Inner You and decide you actually prefer the Outer?

The Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Cathedral_School) doesn't mention the motto. I shall leave it unrevealed and thus make the lives of a metric gazillion Internetizens that little bit more mysterious. Apart from all of you reading this, but you're clearly a statistical anomaly.

[pm215]

No motto, but I see from the website that it has a mission statement:

where the needs of the individual and traditional values are fundamental

I was half expecting it to end "...outweigh the needs of the many", but no such luck.

[mtbc100.livejournal.com]

esse quam videri — we were told it meant, to be, and not to seem to be, which I take as an exhortation to not be misleading in how one presents oneself, IYSWIM.

[shortcipher]

Manners makyth man.

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

What a coincidence

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Something else: Agonizou ton kalon agona tes pisteos - "Fight the good fight of faith" (Class. Greek, from the NT).

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Ut Omnes Unum Sint.

[keirf.livejournal.com]

I don't remember a motto, and I can't find one on the school's website, but they do seem to have a byline now: "The International Choice"

[liv]

My school motto was Il faut savoir montrer les fruits de son age et l'ésprit de sa saison. Nobody ever quite knew what it was supposed to mean, even though the individual words are quite easy: one should know how to show the fruits of one's age and the spirit of one's season. Don't even know where the quote comes from. Girls' private school, big on academic competitiveness and a rather 19^th century style of feminism.

[cjwatson]

Our Lady and St. Patrick's College, Knock: gratias agamus, "let us give thanks".

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Somewhat shamefully, my school had a motto in Latin, but it was wrong.

[truecatachresis.livejournal.com]

ex spinis uvas
Grapes from thorns

[megamole.livejournal.com]

"Manners makyth man"

[keirf.livejournal.com]

So did you go to the same school as Shortcipher and Fivemack?