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title: Training aids make learning easier
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description: Six-panel instructor's wall chart in grey tones, headed 'Training aids make learning easier', with panels on arousing the senses, commanding attention.
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# Training aids make learning easier

Six-panel instructor's wall chart in grey tones, headed 'Training aids make learning easier', with panels on arousing the senses, commanding attention, uniform training, livelier instruction, faster learning and lessons that stick. The technique is faint: the two percentage figures on the sheet are stated without a source.

## 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

```
Training aids
make
learning easier
arouse the senses
Appeal through sight, hearing
smell, taste and touch
command attention
Dramatize and lend variety
to your presentation
make training uniform
Present similar material for
the same subject everywhere
pep up instruction
Bring your class the most
effective teaching methods
speed learning
Tests show students learn
35% more in a given time
make lessons stick
Facts learned are remembered
up to 55% longer
DISTRIBUTION: In accordance with Part II, ASF Cir. 405, 1944 and Section I, ASF Cir. No. 181, 1944: AAF (2); AGF (2); ASF (2) (no overseas distribution).
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1945 -O- [illegible]
TRAINING AIDS MAKE LEARNING EASIER
Approved War Department Graphic Training Aid 20-1
NOTE. Additional poster, "Let Training Aids Work for You," on reverse side.
WAR DEPARTMENT • 5 JANUARY 1945
Reproduction without permission prohibited
```

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