Description: A short article about quotes about mentors
Instructions: Read the short article and answer the questions
Quotes about Mentors
If you have a mentor, this will help you with your networking for a job.
‘The fundamental task of the mentor is a liberatory task. It is not to encourage the mentor’s goals and aspirations and dreams to be reproduced in the mentees, the students, but to give rise to the possibility that the students become the owners of their own history. This is how I understand the need that teachers have to transcend their merely instructive task and to assume the ethical posture of a mentor who truly believes in the total autonomy, freedom, and development of those he or she mentors’
(Freire, Paulo 1997: 324)
To become a mentor it is important that he or she challenges the student’s creative freedom and that he or she stimulate the construction of the student’s autonomy’
(Freire, Paulo 1997: 324)
More details about this article followed by 10 questions. Note: the questions simplify the language of Freire’s academic quotes
What is a mentor? → someone who helps and guides you ✔
How can a mentor help you? → it can help you with your networking for a job ✔
What is the main task of a mentor (Freire)? → to help students become the owners of their own history ✔
Should a mentor make students copy their dreams? → no, students should become owners of their own history ✔
What does a good mentor believe in? → the total autonomy, freedom, and development of the student ✔
What should a mentor do to creative freedom? → challenge it ✔
What should a mentor help a student build? → the student’s autonomy ✔
What does “autonomy” mean simply? → the ability to make your own choices ✔
Who wrote the quotes? → Paulo Freire ✔
Main message of both quotes? → a good mentor helps students think and grow for themselves ✔