If you stop learning, you start dying. Would that it were that easy. Sadly dying took far more than stagnation. Still, at least she was making some sort of intelligent conversation.
"Would I teach you this?" It's an interesting question. He's had quite a few others ask him that before. He gives this one the same answer. "I can teach, but few have the ability to learn. This, takes years, longer than most people have." Decades upon decades. That was the down side of studying as long as he had, it made teaching much harder. "Longer than most people are willing to devote to it."