Sharpies

This is random as the first post, but I've been wondering. Aren't Sharpies just like the more professional form of markers? Markers seem to be the stationary of choice of "elementary school children".

My outlook is that people might think, "I'm in Junior High/High school/College/...I'm old enough to stop using markers and start using Sharpies!!"

The reasons why Sharpies probably aren't given to children because they're known as drugs [if you purposely inhale it, but why would you? O.o].

But are Sharpies really better than markers? I'm more of a Sharpie person than a marker person, but I don't really see a difference [which just totally contradicted my former statement].