Originally Posted by WhiteFwdsm

Its easy. Those who really don't want to learn are the ones you see bouncing all over the place and stalling. Its common sense... push the clutch in when starting the vehicle and make sure its in neutral. Then you'll need to push the clutch in when going into gears. The ones who really want to learn pick it up like if it was nothing. This is how I learned:
One day I was working on my car... automatic but was planning on buying a car around the corner which was manual. My dad comes out and tells me here take her for a spin (92 Eclipse GS, manual transmission). I said, okay are you sure, he said yeah get in and learn since your getting the other car in a few days. So I started the car up, put it in reverse, backed out and went to go into first and stall out since I didn't engage the clutch all the way. Started the car back up and drove it around and went through all the gears. Took me about 5-10 minutes to get it down and I learned by myself. No one in the car and no one to guide me.