What was your school motto?

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Following on from a thread about latin phrases, I thought about how schools describe their values...

My school motto was Fortiter Vivamus - we live bravely.

What was yours?

Fiat lux (let there be light).

It was a school for the blind.

Soultaken - I think yours means "I should have gone to Specsavers"

"As One That Serveth" - barf. Although I hope it means they would be proud of my subsequent career as a waitress.

"May our daughters be as the polished corners of the temple" ! God knows what that really meant but we certainly were not.

'Members one of another' taken from a bit of Romans about all having different talents and generally being nice to each other

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Never had a school motto - it just wasn't the done thing at the bog standard 1970s comprehensive! Please don't tell me that all schools have them now, like uniform...
Although come to think of it, neither of my ds's schools has mottos, so perhaps there is still hope...

"don't put your hands on the bannisters; people gob on them"

Quis Ut Deus - who is like God?

Still a bit puzzled now about that one, some 20 years on....

Not mine but DH's

Mediocria Firma

Determinedly average. Or really, the moderate things are surest, but I think it must have been wilfully mistranslated a lot, as they've changed it now.

Soultaken, yours translates as "Hail, O Cross, our only hope". I guess that was a Catholic school?
Ours had to be changed in the swinging Sixties from "Nos dabemus quod ames" (we'll give you what you'd like ) to the Chaucerian "Trouthe and Honour, Fredom and Curteisye".

Was that St George's Edinburgh, Marina?

Mine was 'Esse Quam Videri'

Nemo a me alienus (I think)

Nobody to me is a stranger.

i have no idea what ours was but it should have been 'god loves those who hate themselves, just look at the fricking nuns' amen

Fideliter, fortiter, feliciter - faithful, happy, brave. A lot more exciting than ds's current "Be busy, be happy, be safe" which is not daring or inspiring at all, in my opinion. Where oh where has all the bravery gone in schools today????

BTW am I sad if I still have my school scarf and blazer tucked at the back of my cupboard?? Anyone else got theirs?

What's latin for "If you smoke behind the bike sheds, don't get yourself caught" ?

or was it "If you can't be good, by careful"?

Finis coronat opus - the end crowns the work.

Like, whatever.

lol at snaf
"be busy???"
blah

Franc Ha Leol Eto Ge

Frank and Loyal Are We.

In Cornish.

Or so they say, who's to know

BoffinMum, I can do better than that! I still have the straw boater with navy grosgrain ribbon that I wore in pre-kindergarten...

Ivvvvyy and Phoenix - did you go to the same school as me? Our school motto was also Esse quam videre - to be rather than to be seen to be.

Actually I quite like it, especially in this age of "sleb culture" where image is so important...

Wilbur....where did you go to school? Ours was "As one that serveth" too. Surely only one school picked this......

balisunrise - it was in Guildford, part of a group of girls' schools for whom the overall motto was "The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom" (!). Is it the same school as yours? When were you there?

deo non fortuna - through god not fortune