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There are thousands of topics named 'Teach me majyx lollll!!11" or "I want a mentor", and I just fail to explain the phenomena.

When I was younger, I never wanted for someone to show me things. First, it kills all the fun, and second, teacher can't teach you everything he knows. Well, not this kind of teacher. Magic is not that kind of knowledge- he can give you information, but magic is a personal skill, so to say, and nobody but you can learn it.

Second thing that seems to happen almost always with cases like this, is that those who ask for mentor only ask to learn a specific skill that can have very few purposes other than showing off to friends (telekinesis, transformation, talking to animals, throwing lightning bolts, levitation, element control-what the hell is that anyway? ) Another version of this is coming and asking for a mentor, but the person has no clue what he wants to learn. Just imagine someone who wants to,say, learn to speak in another language and comes to language school, and when they ask him which language he wants he says'Ummm...geeezz...no idea..."

Third interesting thing happens when someone who can barelly spell comes, and asks for a mentor, but instead of actively asking help from people who offer help, little student leaves his email and says his mentor to contact HIM. Pshhh. I have no better things to do in my life.

And fourth, which is my favourite, is the case when someone in his early teens who can barelly spell and seeks a mentor. Then someone even younger and with equally horrible spelling comes along and says he is a Mermaidic Fairy Ancient Vampiric Werewolf High Priest Of The Order Of King Arthur and offers help.

So now. What makes people seek a mentor instead of literature and practice?