Mentor

student or disciple maybe

or pupil

Pupil, indeed, Joe! It's in this term the relationship between Mentor and Telemaque is always refered.

The term for the person who is guided is neither student, disciple nor pupil but protége.

not with that accent any way!!!

I am with Azen on this one. By the way, welcome to the forums.

protege is the best choice, agreed; and a second welcome.

After a little research, I came to conclusion that "protégé" is the most convenient term in english speaking countries.
(I stated otherwise before, which I apology).

"Protege" sounds the best to me too! But what do I know? LOL

Yes, protege seems best, because it implies a mentor... just as mentor implies the existence of a protege.

What does the term apprentice imply? Or, to whom is one apprenticed? To a master?

Yes. A carpenter's apprentice is apprenticed to a master carpenter

I'm not so keen on protege in this context, because you don't necessarily have to teach a protege anything. A protege can be someone who you have undertaken to introduce to the right people, to recommend for jobs, to push generally.

I would go for pupil or student.

By the way, can anyone teach me how to get accents into posts? I see that some of you clever people know how!

Syntinen,

Maybe this could be of a little help : accents

Francis, your appropriate comments on the man we refer to in English as Telemachus got entirely ignored.

Gollum, you did not find mentee because mentor does not derive from a verb--there is no verb in English "to ment."

When Odysseus left for the Trojan War, he entrusted the care of his son, and his son's education, to an old and trusted family retainer, Mentor. Mentor stood in the stead of father for Telemachus while Odysseus was gone. Mentor entered the English language as a common noun through the of making habit classical references which was common in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the Illiad, the herald of the Greeks was Stentor; hence, stentorian has become an English adjective meaning in loud, clear tones, as "a stentorian voice." Happens all the time . . .

My personal feeling is that those who offer protégé have got it right.

mentor is an accepted transitive verb.

Protege fits best but syn has a point. Many times a musical protege is superior to his mentor but doesn't have the connections to go it alone.