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Docendo discimus, (Latin by teaching, we learn). Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AD) says in his letters to Lucilius Junior that we are learning if we teach (epistulae morales I, 7, 8). Docendo discimus is the motto of the following institutions:

• 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
• the Department of Computer Science at the West University of Timisoara

References

• Heimbach, Elizabeth. Latin Everywhere, Everyday: A Latin Phrase Workbook. Bolchazy-Carducci: 2004. ISBN 978-0865165724.
• Stone. Jon, R. The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations: The Illiterati's Guide to Latin Maxims, Mottoes, Proverbs, and Sayings. Routledge: 2004. ISBN 978-0415969086.