re: Who garners more respect as an educator:the high school teacher or college prof?

I should add that I'm asking because I'm getting experience as both. I taught high school for a while and now I'm in graduate school as well as a teacher of record.

I've noticed that no one in my cohort gives a shite about my prior teaching experience, and one of the professors said to me that teaching college is much different than teaching high school. It was said in the tone that teaching college is a much more difficult job. From my experience, teaching is teaching. Professors just don't give a shite about being good "teachers" in the sense that teaching is a craft. However, their ability to delve into deep and profound discussions on a subject far surpasses that of the high school teacher.