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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. War Department
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Science and technology
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. War Department. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1252 (NAID 514858).
Text on the object
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
