I want to share to you who is mentor and why do we need a mentor in our daily lives.
- Toby Ramos
…Ted Engstrom defines a mentor as someone who “provides modeling, close supervision on special projects, individualized help in many areas-discipleship, encouragement, correction, confrontation and a calling to accountability.” According to Engstrom, a mentor is someone who has achieved superior rank and influence in an organization or profession. The mentor is an authority in his or her field as a result of disciplined study and experience. This person is willing to commit time and emotional energy to a relationship that guides an understudy’s growth and development.
The idea of mentoring apparently come from homer’s Odyssey, in which King Odysseus went to war leaving his household and young son, Telemachus, in the care of a wise and proven teacher named MENTOR. Clearly, the king was not in a great hurry to get home because he was gone for twenty-one years. When he returned he found that the young prince had become a competent leader and man of integrity, molded by the example, guidance and wisdom of mentor. For centuries, the concept of apprenticeship meant something similar – the guidance of an older, more experienced person, passing knowledge and teaching skills to a young learner.
