Well... I still had to learn things. We just didn't really have school.

[The home-schooled and military-schooled life, man. He only has any idea of school-related things secondhand, like everything else, from records and anecdotes and fiction. It's far removed enough from his reality that despite all the complaining, he kind of wants to try it in the idle sort of way you think about trying to revive the dinosaurs or going to the moon.]