why bother to try to teach them

F.P.: "In that case," I asked, "how can they ever learn anything from you - or from anyone else?"

Gurdjieff: "Maybe they not learn anything ever."

F.P.: "Then why bother to try and teach them?"

He smiled, indulgently. "Because is possibility, even if very small, may learn."

Fritz Peters - Gurdjieff Remembered