SUMMARY
Environmental knowledge and attitudes are human behavior or actions that are conscious of the environment based on responsibility. Environmental knowledge and attitudes are the opposite of the frontier mentality. The research focuses on looking at the extent to which the level of education can increase or influence the knowledge and attitudes of society in general. The research population is the people who live in the coastal environment of the city of Makassar. A total of 60 samples were divided into 2 (two) categories, each of which was 30 samples, namely the high-educated sample category and the low-educated sample. Purposive sampling is used as a non-random sampling technique. The instrument used in collecting data in this study is a questionnaire to determine the characteristics of respondents and the level of knowledge and attitudes of people's lifestyles. The data analysis technique used in this research is paired t-test with the IBM SPSS program. The results found that the community's initial ability to knowledge and environmental attitudes from research instruments that were carried out initial tests before counseling still tended to be low because people still had not known and studied. This means that environmental education for higher education is indirectly less effective in increasing knowledge of environmental, but audio-visual media is very effective for low education.