School Motto
The school motto, Vita Hominis Sine Literis Mors Est, is a quotation from letter number 82 in Seneca the Younger's Epistulae morales ad Lucilium -
- Vita sine litteris mors est, et hominis vivi sepultura.
- (Life without learning is death, and the funeral of a living man).
This motto is shared with -
- Adelphi University in Nassau County, New York
- Manning's High School, an 18th century foundation in Jamaica
- The new Derby Grammar School
A variation of the legend of the motto, forming the school badge, was laid in black and white into a coloured mosaic at the entrance of the new Moorway Lane School in 1966. It said "Vita Sine Litteris Mors"
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