School Motivation, '70s-Style

I love it when bloggers resurrect printed materials from my youth, like these school posters from the early '70s on Denver's Westword. First they posted a series in this style, with the original captions intact:


That's probably one of the worst concepts anyone could come up with to illustrate the idea of thinking for yourself. What, is the girl thinking to herself, "Hmmm, I think a foot should equal 11 inches"?

More recently, Westword put up a second set of posters with the original wording removed, replacing it with their own interpretations:



It's so much easier to make fun of the past than it is to see the absurdities of the present.