move quote " Why should I teacher you my style"

I recently watched a martial arts movie in which the teacher asked a perspective student, "why should I teach you my style?". The teach added that his style was a national treasure. This resonated deeply with me I would imagine that those who would teach the martial arts have difficulty finding those who genuinely have a appreciation for the culture which gave birth to the art let alone respect for the teacher in this world of MMA culture or the fight club culture of quick fix technique culture. The more sublime levels of training seem not to impossible to reach by the modern multitasking world as having little value or requiring a life time to reach and so dismissed as unattainable. However who in modern society is more effective then our ancient ancestors for whom multitasking was a matter of life and death and who reached the hights of mastery while living in far more challenging environments than we now find ourselves in I would imagine.