I can.
I learned to drive (like all my 8 brothers and sisters) in a 1963 Chevy Bel Air Station wagon,"three-on-the-tree", with a clutch that took all your strength to depress. Dad would watch my left foot on that clutch and G*d forbid if you EVER rode that thing.
"Brake first, then clutch at the very end only. Get your foot off the clutch. I can't afford to keep putting clutches in this thing."
Dad used to say if you could learn to drive THAT clutch you could drive ANYTHING. He was right of course. Amazing how smart that man became when I moved away to college...but I digress.
I have found that most people have NO IDEA what a clutch is and how a clutch works, and thus have NO IDEA how to drive one. Get the learning driver to understand the basis of what it is and how a clutch works, THEN you can teach them how to drive one.
Oh, BTW, never, EVER under ANY circumstance, try to teach your wife or girlfriend how to drive a clutch. Let a father or disinterested friend do it.
Ask me how I know....
Every car I’ve had since 1977 has a stick. I now have a 2012 Hyundai Veloster. It is becoming very difficult to find that as an option especially if you venture away from “sporty” cars.
I’m sure the at some point the aholes if government will mandate an autopilot unless the nanny state is slowed down or stopped...