Metaphor for Teaching

Teaching art is like a personal trainer. The art teacher will do one on one coaching, see your potential even when you can't, push you harder than you have ever been pushed, make you analyze your decisions, exercise your problem solving skills, pick you up when you fall, encourage you to try new things and to keep going when you want to stop. There are so many things that we do as teachers, I don't really feel like we can fit under just one metaphor. There are so many hats that we wear as teachers. We are facilitators, moms when we need to be, friends and disciplinarians. I know I am missing a bunch of other things that we do everyday.