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title: 'Never Too Late to Learn: Popular Educational Classes for Adults in Bac Lieu Province'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/never-too-late-adult-education-bac-lieu-1965-1969/
description: A photo-story sheet (code SP-1963) reports that Rural Construction cadres are running popular education classes in Bac Lieu province to teach illiterate
section: Collection
---

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# Never Too Late to Learn: Popular Educational Classes for Adults in Bac Lieu Province

A photo-story sheet (code SP-1963) reports that Rural Construction cadres are running popular education classes in Bac Lieu province to teach illiterate adults to read and write the national script. Photographs show an elderly student questioning the teacher, a classroom, and two cadres behind stacks of free notebooks. The heading 'Still not late!' invites adults to join the classes.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Vietnamese) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
VẪN CHƯA MUỘN!
BÌNH-DÂN GIÁO-DỤC TẠI BẠCLIÊU

Tại xã-ấp, trong chương trình xây dựng nông-thôn, ngoài nỗ lực kiến-thiết những gì đổ vỡ do Việt cộng gây ra, Chánh-phủ Việt-Nam Cộng-Hòa còn đặc biệt chú ý đến việc thanh toán nạn mù chữ, do đó các lớp bình dân giáo-dục được mở ra để giúp những người mù chữ có cơ hội học quốc-ngữ.
Trong chủ trương đó, tại tỉnh Bạcliêu, các đoàn cán bộ xây dựng nông thôn đã nỗ lực tổ chức các lớp bình dân giáo-dục do chính họ hướng dẫn tại các ấp Cái-Trầm, Láng Dài, Xóm Lớn, vv... thuộc quận Vĩnh-Lợi và Giá-Rai.

Một cụ già thuộc lớp BÌNH DÂN GIÁO DỤC tại ấp Cái Trầm, xã Hòa Bình, Quận Vĩnh Lợi đang hỏi lại giảng viên những điều ông chưa thu thập rõ ràng.

Các Bà nội trợ cũng đi học với hy vọng sẽ biết đọc, biết viết.

Cán bộ Xây dựng Nông thôn đang tận tâm hướng dẫn lớp BÌNH DÂN GIÁO DỤC tại ấp Cái Trầm thuộc Quận Vĩnh Lợi. Các học-viên cũng được cấp tập vở và viết.

SP-1963
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
STILL NOT TOO LATE!
POPULAR EDUCATION AT BAC LIEU

In villages and hamlets, within the rural construction programme, besides the effort to rebuild what was broken by the Viet Cong, the Government of the Republic of Vietnam pays special attention to wiping out illiteracy; for that reason popular education classes are opened to give illiterate people a chance to learn the national script (quoc-ngu).
In line with that policy, in Bac Lieu province, rural construction cadre teams have worked to organise popular education classes which they themselves teach in the hamlets of Cai Tram, Lang Dai, Xom Lon and others in Vinh Loi and Gia Rai districts.

An old man in the POPULAR EDUCATION class at Cai Tram hamlet, Hoa Binh village, Vinh Loi district, is asking the teacher again about things he has not understood clearly.

Housewives also go to school in the hope of learning to read and write.

Rural Construction cadres are devotedly teaching the POPULAR EDUCATION class at Cai Tram hamlet in Vinh Loi district. The students are also issued notebooks and pens.

SP-1963
```

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