Here's Car Talk's 100 Percent Effective Way To Teach Someone To Drive A Stick
by Rory Carroll on Jalopnik, shared by Joel Cunningha from Lifehacker on (#5FZ7Z)
Turns out, there's a 100 percent effective way to teach people to drive a stick shift. I first heard it several years ago from the sainted Tappet Brothers, and I've taught maybe 25 or 30 people to drive a manual with it since - with a zero percent failure rate.