Docendo discimus

Docendo discimus, (Latin "by teaching, we learn") is a Latin proverb.

Perhaps derived from Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD), who says in his Letters to Lucilius, Book I, letter 7, section 8: Homines dum docent discunt. "Men learn while they teach."

Motto

Docendo discimus is the motto of the following institutions:

• Cherepovets State University in Cherepovets, Russia
• 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
• Dnipropetrovsk National University in Ukraine
• Federal College of Education Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria.
• The Alexandru Ioan Cuza National College, Ploieşti, Romania
• Bulgarian Diplomatic Institute in Sofia, Bulgaria

New York International School

References

• Heimbach, Elizabeth. Latin Everywhere, Everyday: A Latin Phrase Workbook. Bolchazy-Carducci: 2004. ISBN 978-0-86516-572-4.
• 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.