The words are true, and he has no doubt that his mother could have taught him. He expects she has been teaching Rey, though he has no solid confirmation of that. One more way that Rey keeps ending up with things that should have been his.

But in the end, it's not that his mother couldn't have taught him. It's that she wouldn't.

"She didn't feel qualified to keep me from the Dark Side," he clarifies. "As it turns out, my uncle wasn't good at that, either."