Sep 4, 2026 · 18 min · 9 segments
Live While You're Young What if you never hated learning? What if you only hated being told what, when, and how to learn? It's Labor Day weekend, everyone is heading back to school, and I've been…
Andy HumphreyHost
I'm 47, so let's say 40 years, that school and learning can be, or maybe they are, two very different things.
And I think somewhere along my journey and all of us, perhaps, there's something fucked up about this.
Oftentimes, I will try not to speak in generalities because not everything is always true, but oftentimes or sometimes school can really make learning suck, which is crazy because learning is fucking awesome.
Learning is taking apart, taking something apart because you want to know what's inside.
Learning is getting your ass kicked by a problem for three days, like working on that old Rainbird MDC 2-wire system that there probably aren't very many around anymore, but maybe there are, working on that old Rainbird MDC 2-wire system for three days, and all of a sudden, you're suddenly, you're like, oh, I get it.
But somewhere along the way, we took this incredible human instinct called curiosity and it became institutionalized.
We told you when it was okay to sit down, when you should stand up, when to talk, what to read, what questions would be next on the test.
I'm 47, so let's say 40 years, that school and learning can be, or maybe they are, two very different things.
And I think somewhere along my journey and all of us, perhaps, there's something fucked up about this.
Oftentimes, I will try not to speak in generalities because not everything is always true, but oftentimes or sometimes school can really make learning suck, which is crazy because learning is fucking awesome.
Learning is taking apart, taking something apart because you want to know what's inside.
Learning is getting your ass kicked by a problem for three days, like working on that old Rainbird MDC 2-wire system that there probably aren't very many around anymore, but maybe there are, working on that old Rainbird MDC 2-wire system for three days, and all of a sudden, you're suddenly, you're like, oh, I get it.
But somewhere along the way, we took this incredible human instinct called curiosity and it became institutionalized.
We told you when it was okay to sit down, when you should stand up, when to talk, what to read, what questions would be next on the test.
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