Universal mentoring

One could see universal mentoring as a logical next goal after Universal Primary Education.

The rationale is that parents do not have any common qualification,^{[parenting driver's license]} consequently parents cannot be expected to fill the role of pedagogues with any reliability.

Mentors can form an intentional social network with the goal to provide that reliability by supporting and educating parents where necessary (and where not necessary, because you can't easily convince all parents who may benefit from help that they are different from the parents who probably don't; that could be part of the criteria for being in the first group). One could also speculate that every adolescent may potentially benefit from mentoring, no matter how parents are qualified. For an adolescent in the role of a mentor mentoring can also be seen as a contribution to citizenship education.

As a further effect mentors who become parents later on have some prior training in pedagogy.

Motivation

The suggested view is, to stress the point, that upbringing generally includes the risk of easily overlooked human rights abuse that occurs as a side effect of childhood and adolescence and that parents can not in general be assumed to be suitable or capable to prevent human rights abuse they fail to recognize as such. Mentors could therefore be invited to see themselves as defenders or asserters of human rights, especially concerning the free development of personality.<ref>Free development of personality (German Wikipedia)</ref> The christian concept of love for enemies (which is frequently of no relevance due to lack of enemies) may become meaningful in a weaker interpretation and in a social context where segregation is reversed, a prominent example of which is mentoring. Consequently love for enemies in the context of mentoring would mean that a mentor should understand that even if the protégé is a nuisance a mentor can under no circumstances legitimate human rights abuse, which also means the mentor has acknowledged an important moral priority.

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See also

• Social effects