ON THE IDEAL OF MENTORSHIP– dedicated with appreciation to Hippocrates G. Apostle –
The author's note on this article is as follows: “I have been looking for ways to bring the humanities more into discussions of advising. Mentorship seemed a likely way, it having grown out of my long-term interest in the use of dialectic in advising conversation (and a long-term interest in Plato). Even I am not so eccentric as to try a paper on dialectic and advising, but mentorship afforded a convenient jumping-off point, even if I may have been jumping in a direction different from everyone else!”
This article began as a formal presentation which, according to the author, was “warmly received,” and elicited the following comment: “Thank you for reminding us that what we sometimes think we have been doing for only about 10 years has been going on for 2500.”
Contributor Notes
*JOEL F. WILCOX holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Iowa. His undergraduate majors were philosophy and Greek. He has published many articles and presented a number of papers, all dealing with some aspect of philosophy or literature, at various conferences. He is currently the assistant director of the Undergraduate Academic Advising Center at the University of Iowa.