ABSTRACT
We ask our readers to consider that these five questions can germinate and shape an entire education. We suggest that the dialogues initiated and sustained by these questions will sufficiently provide both the content and process of learning in academic, workplace, community, and personal life. Moreover, these questions, when asked of oneself in self-reflection, create a lifelong course of learning which is at once entirely coherent and meaningful and yet entirely open to endlessly diverse and unexpected discoveries. The name we apply to the people whose vocation it is to ask such questions is “mentor.” The deliberate practice of learning, through asking them of one’s students and of oneself, is “mentoring.”
