stulti doctrinam spernunt - translate please?

[clairey-s]

It's a school motto - see my recent Q's!
tia x

[Vesper99]

Unintelligent people despise learning

[clairey-s]

Should I take that as a joke? x

[squarebear]

I don't think that's far off as I put the phrase into an online translator and got: "foolishly doctrine to scorn".

[kempie]

TGS perchance?

[Peter Pedant]

this cant be a skool motto ?

anyway - stulti - stupid people
(my sister's Latin teacher Grogz, used to say. stulta puella - stupid girl)

doctrinam - teaching or doctrine

spernunt - they spurn (same root) despise, reject

The stupid avoid teaching


Ho humn I think this is a wind up by the Stultis

[clairey-s]

Yeah, TGS... so stupid people ehy? x

[derrynoose]

Peter Pedant. Shouldn't your sister's teacher have said 'puella stulta'?

[atticus13]

Fools despise leaning motto of Thornton Grammar School near Bradford in Yourkshire

[atticus13]

This the motto of Thornton Grammar School near Bradford in Yorkshire UK. It means Fools Despise Learning

[brmbds]

Fools despise learning (my old school motto)

[brmbds]

Fools despise learning (my old school motto)