Utterly unfamiliar with classical studies, but is there any potential for our understanding of Latin to change based on historical discovery or reassessment?
(Even if so I assume Oxford types aren't going to get an email telling them to update their motto engravings.)
My university class uses a Latin textbook from 1971. And while Latin perhaps hasn't changed, my native language surely has - so a lot of the translations from Latin uses old-fashioned Swedish words that are no longer in use, and sometimes students have needed to ask for their meaning.
Apart from that: We have a whole science (didactics/pedagogy) around what the best methods for teaching and learning are and I'm sure they are improving (or trying to) a lot. Or just trying to keep up with all the other changes around them! (still a funny mem)
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(Even if so I assume Oxford types aren't going to get an email telling them to update their motto engravings.)