non scholae sed vitae discimus meaning
Non scholÃ¦ sed vitÃ¦ is a Latin phrase. Its longer form is non scholÃ¦ sed vitÃ¦ discimus, which means We do not learn for school, but for life. The scholae and vitae are first-declension feminine datives of purpose. The motto is an inversion of the original, which appeared in Seneca the Younger's Moral Letters to Lucilius around AD 65.