Το όνομά μου είναι Νέστωρ, Μέντωρ Νέστωρ

Abstract

In the school educational system the Mentor institution has been introduced through legislation. Mentor is supposed to ensure the guidance of the probationary teacher in stage. A set of other archetype organs could be created, with Mentor as a crucial organ, in the context of an anthropomorphic democratization of the educational system. These organs are exemplified by Nestor and Diotima, symbolizing and promoting Liberty and Equality respectively. Nestor should result as the further evolution of the school counselor and as the role model for pupils, given that the education should be geared to form not merely, according to the Greek Constitution in vigor, free citizens but according to Nestor’s archetype role model free citizens. Mentor could be consecrated as the symbol of the educational method of Apprenticeship in general. This has to do also with the supervision of the elaboration of research papers of pupils and students. The supervision should, on the one hand, be completed by a female teacher or professor, being a quasi supervisor, Diotima, in the framework of a Mentors Network and, on the other hand, be supported by an experienced educator, accomplishing the Nestor’s mission. Mentor is strictly related, in a philosophical level, to Nestor as he trains trainees in a practical art, in a faculty of motions, consequently in Liberty (according to the etymology of the correspondent Greek word for Liberty, «Ελευθερία»). Finally, the educational system itself could be transformed to a Pedagogical Academic Republic, by rephrasing the constitutional formulation that the regime of Greece is Parliamentary Republic.