--- title: The Technical School in Vinh Long Brings Benefits to the Young People url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vinh-long-technical-school-1965-1969/ description: 'A landscape photo sheet (code SP-1112) under a magenta banner presents the Vinh Long technical secondary school: its building, a boy at a lathe.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. The Technical School in Vinh Long Brings Benefits to the Young People [![The Technical School in Vinh Long Brings Benefits to the Young People, 1965 US poster: A landscape photo sheet (code SP-1112)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vinh-long-technical-school-1965-1969.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/vinh-long-technical-school-1965-1969.jpg) # The Technical School in Vinh Long Brings Benefits to the Young People A landscape photo sheet (code SP-1112) under a magenta banner presents the Vinh Long technical secondary school: its building, a boy at a lathe, a classroom with a drawing on the blackboard and a library. The text gives enrolment as 500 boys and 200 girls in 18 classes after five years of operation and says an American aid agency paid about 80 million piastres for its construction and equipment. The sheet shows only the school's benefits, with the U.S. funding stated in the body text. ## 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 ``` TRUNG HỌC KỸ THUẬT VĨNH LONG ĐEM LẠI LỢI ÍCH CHO CÁC BẠN TRẺ ! Trường Trung Học Kỹ Thuật Vĩnh Long là một Trung Tâm huấn luyện đào tạo những người thợ trẻ lành nghề để phụng sự quê hương Tổ Quốc. Trường này đã hoạt động từ 5 năm qua, hiện có 18 lớp với sĩ số 500 nam sinh và 200 nữ sinh theo học từ Đệ Thất đến Đệ Tam Trung Học Kỹ Thuật. Trường Trung Học Kỹ Thuật Vĩnh Long do cơ quan viện trợ Hoa Kỳ tài trợ kinh phí xây cất và trang bị, tổng cộng lối 80 triệu bạc Việt Nam. Quang cảnh chung của Trường Trung Học Kỹ Thuật Vĩnh Long, xây cất tại Đại Lộ Nguyễn Huệ, Vĩnh Long. Các em học sinh kỹ thuật đang thực tập nghề chuyên môn như nguội, tiện v.v. tại các xưởng máy của nhà Trường. Các em học sinh được nhà trường chỉ dạy về phần lý thuyết căn bản trước khi đến các xưởng chuyên môn để thực hành. Một thư viện có nhiều loại sách bổ ích như học thuật, giải trí, sưu khảo v.v... của nhà trường để giúp các em học sinh có nơi trau giồi và mở rộng kiến thức. - SP 1112 - ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` VINH LONG TECHNICAL SECONDARY SCHOOL BRINGS BENEFITS TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE! Vinh Long Technical Secondary School is a training centre that trains skilled young tradesmen to serve the homeland, the Fatherland. This school has been operating for the past 5 years and now has 18 classes with 500 boy pupils and 200 girl pupils studying from Form 7 to Form 3 of technical secondary school. Vinh Long Technical Secondary School had its construction and equipment funded by the American aid agency, a total of about 80 million Vietnamese piastres. General view of Vinh Long Technical Secondary School, built on Nguyen Hue Boulevard, Vinh Long. Technical pupils practising specialised trades such as filing (bench work) and turning at the school's workshops. The pupils are taught basic theory by the school before going to the specialised workshops to practise. A library with many kinds of useful books, such as scholarly, recreational and reference works, belongs to the school to help the pupils have a place to improve themselves and broaden their knowledge. - SP 1112 - ``` Translation is FRAME's own literal rendering from the poster's Vietnamese text; not verified by a fluent reader. Diacritics are transcribed as printed to the best of legibility at this image resolution. 'Đệ Thất đến Đệ Tam' are the South Vietnamese school forms, rendered 'Form 7 to Form 3'. A few characters in the blackboard drawing are too small to read and are not transcribed. [← Chánh quyền Vĩnh Long tận tâm phục vụ đồng bào nông thôn (Vinh Long Authorities Serve the Rural People)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vinh-long-authorities-serve-rural-people-1965-1969/) [Lớp huấn nghệ cho đồng bào tỵ nạn Cộng-sản (Vocational Training Classes for Compatriots Fleeing Communism) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/vocational-training-communist-refugees-darlac-1965-1969/) ## 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.