Latin

Absque Labore Nihil
School Motto .

Plus a few years learning to Certificate level .
Invaluable, though not appreciated until much later
 
Absque Labore Nihil
School Motto .

Plus a few years learning to Certificate level .
Invaluable, though not appreciated until much later
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Ruabon Grammar School
Former school in Wales
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Ruabon Grammar School was situated in Ruabon, Denbighshire in north-east Wales. It provided a grammar school education to boys in the parishes of Ruabon and Erbistock. Ruabon Grammar School for Boys b…

Establishedante 1575
MottoAbsque Labore Nihil · (Latin language: "Nothing Without Labour")

Closed1967
Number of pupils400 (approx.) Interesting education system. Are all schools there all boy or all girl?
 
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Ruabon Grammar School
Former school in Wales
Fancy being twinned with a school in a pagan country .

I was never aware of that and it would have been funny if they had ever turned up unannounced at a sixth form dance !!
 
I've read your posts. The phrase is accurate.
That gate swings both ways.
I've read your posts and they also reflect a stupid, dumb, and obnoxious poster.
But then you are a Leftist-Democrat and such is a requirement to hold those erroneous positions.
 
I sort of did some Latin when young and an altar boy, before the church dropped it for local tongues.

10 Latin phrases people pretend to understand​

Knowing some Latin has its advantages

HOw right you are
Al Gore said E Pluribus Unum in a speech and then proudly mistranstlated and gave a stupid Biden face expecting approbation
Out of one, many

E pluribus unum // "Out of many, one"
It made the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...slation/53a23eb9-3fa5-4dd5-8eb9-cbcef29c992e/
 
HOw right you are
Al Gore said E Pluribus Unum in a speech and then proudly mistranstlated and gave a stupid Biden face expecting approbation
Out of one, many

E pluribus unum // "Out of many, one"
It made the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...slation/53a23eb9-3fa5-4dd5-8eb9-cbcef29c992e/
Which means in longer contemporary phrasing;

'From many of diverse origins (ethinics-race-culture) we become One in common goal, agenda, focus.'
OR
'The many will join to be one in common agenda and goal.'

Doesn't deny the diversity of origins, rather that such will not be in the way of a common goal and agenda.
 
It is using your brain in a different way and helping you to think laterally and possibly with greater precision .

I did not enjoy learning it at the time because the method of its teaching then was poor --- endless Punic Wars etc .
But now I appreciate the several benefits it produced .
 

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