--- title: Education url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/education-army-special-service-1943/ description: Photo-panel exhibit sheet headed 'Education'. Photographs and captions show soldiers using libraries, correspondence courses, magazines. section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Education [![Education, 1943 US poster: Photo-panel exhibit sheet headed 'Education'. Photographs and captions show soldiers using](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/education-army-special-service-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/education-army-special-service-1943.jpg) # Education Photo-panel exhibit sheet headed 'Education'. Photographs and captions show soldiers using libraries, correspondence courses, magazines, language records and radio-code records, with a '1943 Film Catalog' cover among the items. It shows only the services on offer and no limits or costs. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` Self-education and entertainment are provided by books and magazines distributed by Special Service Division. Reference and technical books are as easily available as books of fiction. Paper-covered books and microphotographed magazines are produced for overseas and given wide distribution. Patients in Army hospitals are provided with adequate reading material. Traveling libraries provide plenty of books for small isolated units. EDUCATION Off-duty time can be spent profitably in self-teaching courses. A soldier can continue many of the courses he was studying in school or college with academic credit. Magazines are dropped to isolated units from planes each week. Self-teaching courses include useful subjects from typing to welding "Mail Call" can mean "School Call" when Army Institute courses arrive. From phonograph records and accompanying instructions soldiers can easily learn subjects important to them. Practice sheets and 22 phonograph records teach basic radio code. Twenty-eight languages taught by phonograph and glossaries. Education is also available through easily available instructive motion picture films. [items shown, partly legible:] SHORTHAND A Self-Teaching Course; LANGUAGE GUIDE TO NORTH AFRICA; How to Use Your Eyes At Night; ARMY INSTITUTE CATALOG "WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO LEARN?"; Education in the ARMED FORCES; ARMY LIBRARY SERVICE UNIT SET OF MAGAZINES; Basic Radio Code INSTRUCTOR'S MANUAL A COURSE IN FUNDAMENTALS THE ARMY INSTITUTE MADISON WISCONSIN; 1943 FILM CATALOG ARMED FORCES EDITION [imprint:] [illegible] ``` [← Eat the Basic 7... every day! Eat a lunch that packs a punch!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/eat-the-basic-7-every-day-1943/) [Emergency! Your help is needed to can the crops →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/emergency-help-needed-to-can-the-crops-1943/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.