Also If they are giving up that means they are probably frustrated and sometimes it is the teacher that can cause that.
Sure - although they never even got as far as asking for help (basically just complained that they don't want to use GPG and would only join if it they could use their "Google" or "Facebook" accounts to login).
(a bit hard to teach someone that doesn't want to even learn)

Well that is true, but they will figure it out that it will be more and more important as there bitcoin career goes on.