Corporate Sponsorship for Educational Facilities

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Corporate sponsorship within the realm of education negatively affects said education without providing a comparable benefit as compensation.

Hard economic times often call for drastic measures to maintain a stable monetary position, be it for an individual or an organization. Yet, even in economic hardship, bounds must be set. Corporate sponsorship for educational facilities, on the surface, seems like an excellent idea, where a large sum of money obtained by putting up a few posters around the school is as a dream come true. However, such is not the case in a real world application.

Corporation often seeks to exploit the malleable minds of the youth for monetary benefit. This sponsorship comes in forms that are borderline brainwashing (or just plain outright brainwashing), such as Exxon’s “educational” videos, which promote the company as an environmentally friendly company, or Hershey promoting their junk food as healthy and “integral” to a daily balanced diet (Source A). Nike’s program on the environment also serves no other purpose than to give the company publicity and imp...

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