''Docendo discimus'' is a

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proverb meaning "by teaching, we learn." It is perhaps derived from

Seneca the Younger Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (; 65 AD), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and, in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature. Seneca was born in ...

(c. 4 BC – 65 AD), who says in his ''

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'' (Book I, letter 7, section 8): ''Homines dum docent discunt.'', meaning "Men learn while they teach."

Motto

''Docendo discimus'' is the

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in Cherepovets,

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* Stranmillis University College in Belfast, Northern Ireland * the

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* Federal College of Education Yola,

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* Bulgarian Diplomatic Institute in

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*Hilford Grammar High School, Sydney *USAF, Maintenance Management Analysis, 2R0X1 * Newton Bright Educational Consultants, United Kingdom *

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References

*Heimbach, Elizabeth. ''Latin Everywhere, Everyday: A Latin Phrase Workbook.'' Bolchazy-Carducci: 2004. . *Stone. Jon, R. ''The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings.'' Routledge: 2004. {{ISBN, 978-0-415-96908-6. Latin mottos Latin philosophical phrases