Evolution in South Vietnam: Education
A blue-toned English-language panel headed 'Education' lists enrolment and school-building figures beside photographs of children writing at desks, children on a playground slide and laboratory workers with test tubes. The figures include enrolment rising from 330,000 to 1.75 million and secondary schools from 133 to 449. The tell is the one-directional statistics with no baseline year, source or cost given.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1966
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Home front, Science and technology
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Joint U.S. Public Affairs Office (JUSPAO) printing section, Saigon, for the South Vietnamese government. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-011-49.
Text on the object
EDUCATION Student enrollment increased from 330,000 to 1.75 million. Secondary schools increased from 133 to 449. Elementary schools increased from 1,189 to 4,635. More than 8,500 teachers have been trained. Vocational classes increased from 38 to 110 with 14,000 students enrolled. 14 million textbooks being provided. Universities have been expanded. 4
