Adult Education Week (Malay in Jawi script and English poster distributed in Malaya)
A Malayan adult-education poster. A mixed group of men and women in Malay, Chinese and Indian dress, carrying books, walk along a winding road toward a rising sun and a signpost reading 'Success'; the text urges readers to enroll in adult education for 'a better Malaya'. The tell is glittering-generalities: 'success' and 'a better Malaya' are virtue words with no stated course, cost or outcome.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1950
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Truman Administration
- Leader
- Harry S. Truman
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Home front
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), Record Group 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, c. 1950-55. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 5729902, 306-PPA-3).
Text on the object
ADULT EDUCATION ڤلاجران ديواسا SUCCESS بجيائ ADULT EDUCATION LEADS THE WAY TO A BETTER MALAYA ENROLL TODAY ڤلاجران ديواسا ممبينا نكارا، امان سنتوس ! ماسوقله سكارا !!
Adult education. Success. Adult education leads the way to a better Malaya. Enroll today. (Jawi Malay, read approximately as 'Pelajaran dewasa / membina negara, / aman sentosa! / masuklah sekarang!!': 'Adult education / builds the nation, / peaceful and prosperous! / Enter now!!')
Languages: English and Malay in Jawi script; the Jawi lines are a best reading of printed calligraphic type and the romanisation is approximate.
