In the 20th century, we spend the first 20-25 years in some sort of learning environment. Nowadays, people should also be aware that it is increasingly difficult to live comfortably without obtaining a college degree after high school. School is something that constitutes a system in our everyday life: everyone must do it, otherwise they will have difficulty providing for themselves and their family. We enjoy our right to education, but we don't like it all the time. The 12th century had a completely different story. Medieval students eagerly sought something we take for granted today. Thinking about how different things were for people in medieval times, it is often difficult to see the similarities between schools then and now. Schools in medieval times started with churches educating their own people with the basics, this was later removed. of the Church, because the number of people wishing to receive education at the time was becoming larger than the Church itself. Teachers were also “irritated by restrictions imposed by a local school”. The masters wanted more freedom and the small cramped towns presented too many disadvantages. These pressures "led to a fairly rapid disengagement from the 'higher studies' of the cathedrals", and as a result competent masters attempted to be more accessible to their students and to have the capacity to exercise their powers freely. The schools were able to evolve into our modern colleges. We also have the choice of going to a religious school or a secular school to progress in our learning. For a short period, the schools of the 12th century were deinstitutionalized and therefore out of control. Masters would find a place to teach wherever they could. In the first half of the 12th century, there was a "wide ...... middle of paper ...... don't worry about whether we will be able to go to a certain school if the teacher travels or dies because that the school will most likely continue to replace this teacher with someone equally competent. Teachers also have it easier now because they can make a living from this career instead of finding something else that pays them. The schools, students, and teachers of the 12th century fell on much more difficult times since the beginning of educational history, but there are still similarities between what happened then and what is happening today. W. Southern, “The Schools of Paris and the School of Chartres,” in Renaissance and Revival in the 12th Century, ed. by Robert L. Benson and Giles Constable (Cambridge, Mass., 1982), pp. 118. Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum, trans. by Henry Adams Bellows (Medieval Sourcebook), chapter II.