"Ptolemy 1st Soter, first king of Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great, personally sponsored Euclid, but found Euclid's seminal work, the Elements, too difficult to study, so he asked Euclid to show him an easier way to master it. According to the philosopher Proclus, Euclid famously quipped: "Sire, there is no royal road to geometry."

It is noteworthy, that Euclid didn’t use the word odos = road but the word atrapos = trail, by which a short-cut is meant."

I had more than enough entitled people today. If you want to learn something, demanding others teach you isn't going to get you far.