It is a Latin phrase meaning We do not learn for the school, but for life, meaning that one should not gain knowledge and skill to please a teacher or master, but because of the benefits they will gain in their life.
This is the motto of many schools all over the world, possibly in the abbreviated form Non scholae, sed vitae. Among them are Adelaide High School, Carrboro High School, Archbishop Molloy High School, Beal College of Bangor, Maine, Carroll College (Montana), the
