Monday PSA: Learning — The Key to Success

September 15th, 2008

Filed under: Comics

Keep Learning -- The Key to Success! Click for the full page.Kids dropping out of high school must have been a big problem in the 1950s and 60s (or at least DC Comics editorial thought it was a big problem — at least among their readers) because there were multiple public service ads on the topic. Today, we add one more to the list with this PSA from November 1960: Keep Learning — the Key to Success.

Click on the image to the right for the full ad

This PSA was written by Jack Schiff with art by Bernard Baily. It could be found in such titles as Adventure Comics #278, House of Mystery #104, Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane #21, Wonder Woman #118, World’s Finest #113, and Action Comics #270 (where I found this particular example).

I recall another earlier PSA by the same author that also discussed “The Key to Success” — but learning was never mentioned. So which is it, Schiff? What is the real Key to Success?

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3 Responses to “ Monday PSA: Learning — The Key to Success ”

  1. rgl
    September 15th, 2008 at 11:23 am

    That reads like a later ICS ad. In the mid 70s two thirds of the males from my grade 10 class did not finish grade 12. This was not as big a problem in areas that were more urban, richer, or farther from the oil patch but it still was a concern.

  2. Sean Duggan
    September 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am

    Of course, these days, I feel like going to college has replaced finishing high school. And it’s not so much a matter of whether college teaches something that you need for the job so much as it’s a matter of that you just don’t get your resume read if you don’t have college listed. And in some fields, it’s getting to where you won’t get anywhere without your graduate degree… when will the arms race end? There are times when I wish I were mechanically ept so that I could have gone to trade school and spent two years learning a job that pays as well as the one I got with my two degrees.

  3. Ryan
    September 19th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    PCAs seem rather patronising

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