麦考瑞大学学校校训

　　The arms of the University shall be on a field vert, the Macquarie lighthouse tower, masoned proper, in chief the star Sirius, or. Motto: And gladly teche..

　　Of studie took he moost cure and moost heede.

　　Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,

　　And that was seyd in forme and reverence,

　　And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence;

　　Sownynge in moral vertu was his speche,

　　And gladly wolde he lerne

　　and gladly teche.

　　(from the general Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer c. 1400)