In the 20th century, we spend the first 20-25 years in some kind of learning environment. Nowadays people also need to be aware that it is becoming increasingly difficult to go through life comfortably without earning a college degree after high school. School is something that forms a system in our daily lives: everyone must attend it otherwise they have difficulty providing for themselves and their family. We take advantage of our right to education, but we always don't like it. The 12th century had a completely different history. Medieval students eagerly sought something we take for granted today. Thinking about how different things were for people in the medieval era, it is often difficult to see the similarities between schools then and today. Medieval era schools began with churches educating their people with the basics, but these were removed. by the church as the number of people who wanted to get an education at that time was growing more than that of the church itself. The teachers were also “annoyed by the restrictions of a local school”. The bosses wanted more freedom and the small, cramped towns had too many disadvantages. These pressures “led to a fairly rapid disengagement of 'higher studies' from the cathedrals,” and thus skilled masters attempted to be more accessible to their students and to have the ability to exercise their powers freely. The schools were able to evolve into our modern colleges. We can also choose whether to attend a religious school or a secular school to enhance our learning. For a short time, 12th-century schools were deinstitutionalized and therefore out of control. The teachers would find a place to teach wherever they could. In the first half of the 12th century there was a "wide... middle of the paper... we don't have to worry about whether we will be able to attend a certain school if the teacher travels or dies because the school will most likely move on and replace that teacher with someone equally skilled. Even for teachers it is easier now because they can earn a living with this career instead of finding something else to pay them. The schools, students and teachers of the 12th century went through a much more difficult time since they began the history of education, but there are still similarities between what happened then and what happens now. Works Cited RW Southern, "The Schools of Paris and the School of Chartres," in Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century, ed. by Robert L. Benson and Giles Constable (Cambridge, Mass., 1982), pp. 118.Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, trans. Henry Adams Bellows (Medieval Sourcebook), chapter II.