Mentors on the show? more or less?

[FNGRpony 658]

We have Celestial,

Rainbow dash,

and Zecora rounding out the roles of mentor

to

twilight, Scoot, and i guess twilight again.  (not to mention rainbow dash is mentoring twilight some where down the road).  Gee that girl never stops learning does she?

 

Would you like to see more of the other 5 have someone teach them something in a teacher student capacity or one of the cmc,

i'm only leaving out twilight because it's going to happen.  It's a healthy chunk of her character.

 

If you turn around and tell me they have nothing left to learn, why is twilight always still learning?

[skylights 127]

I think a pony learns best when the learning comes the hard way - falling down and getting back up again. Mentors are nice, but I think they would take away from the experience.

 

Aside from that, there's not room for a mentor for most of them. What could a mentor help Applejack learn that she couldn't learn just as easily on her own? And the only mentor Rarity would accept is an aristocratic Canterlot pony, which wouldn't make for a very exciting episode.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Learning a lesson on your own, shows that your able to take responsibility for your actions and use a moral to express that you shouldn't make the same mistake again. A mentor might help you think about a lesson, but you would have to learn the lesson on your own to learn from your mistakes.

Edited November 21, 2013 by Scootalove