A good education is an important part of ones life. To achieve a good education, one should attend both high school and college. Although some people think high school has a lot in common with college, I find them to be very different. After graduating from high school I enrolled into college and noticed that there are many differences between them. A few of these differences include the attitude and responsibilities of the teachers and students and the amount of work given to the students. To begin with, there are many ways in which the attitudes of the teachers in high school differ from the attitudes of the teachers in college. In high school my teachers seemed to be stricter and have more rules for the students to follow. The teachers were also responsible for making sure each student obeyed these rules to the fullest extent and carried out disciplinary actions for those who did not obey them. One example in which a teacher has taken on a disciplinary action was when a student was tardy or skipped their scheduled class; the students usually received detention along with an F for the day in the class the skipped or was tardy too. Although attendance is also required in college and many enforce it; some teachers do not. While attending college I have noticed that there are teachers who feel it is the students responsibility to come to class. If a student chooses to skip that class; the teacher rarely says anything to the student but the student usually gets an F for the day in which they skipped. Some college teachers believe the students should be mature enough to make their own decision on whether to attend class or not and leave it to them to make that decision. While in high school I also noticed teachers had strict rules to obey given to them by a higher authority. These rules include no eating or drinking in class and sometimes no chewing gum. However, in college students are allowed to chew gum and teachers oft...