It is of great importance for mentor to deeply understand this Right and to behave accordingly. It means, among other things, that mentor can't force a student to spend time on learning, and that mentor should not waste any student's time on busywork, inefficient algorithms, outdated material, and such. Every student can choose personal goals in learning. Each student decides whether the goal is to be able to do research, to enter college, to win a competition, to solve all problems in a particular book, to have fun with a subject, or something else. Mentor's responsibility is, first, to make possible and, hopefully, pleasant for each student to learn topics of that student's choice, and second, to introduce the student gently to many new topics to choose from.
Every student has the right to privacy of learning.
Mentor should not discuss any student's learning process with anybody without the student's explicit permission. It means, for example, that mentor can talk about current topics, but not about particular student's progress in these topics. Every student can choose his or her own methods and means of learning, including his or her teachers . Of course, only a limited number of options is available at any given time, but always more than one. The younger and less experienced is a student, the less he or she knows about various options.