The main aim of this study is to investigate mentorship which is an education method that has been used for centuries by referring the related literature. Nowadays, even if it has been used in many areas from business world to schools, there is a little of scientific based application in Turkish education. Scarcity of the scientific support about the issue in Turkey is the motive of this research.  One of the reasons of this scarcity is the majority of scientific studies and published research has been done on application of business world.
In this research, firstly definitions, history and best examples of educational application around world were given, then the effects of mentoring studies with gifted students were investigated. Within the scope of the study, publication and scientific articles from 1978 to 2013 have been tried to obtain from Eric, EbscoHost, Gifted Child Quarterly, Gifted Child Today, Roeper Review databases by using the keywords; mentor, mentoring, mentorship, gifted mentoring, mentorship and gifted, effect of mentorship. In the light of the obtained data, the suggestions about general mentoring practices in education and a perspective particularly about the mentoring programs for gifted students in Turkey are presented. In general, mentorship must be entered to formal education process; specifically special mentoring programs must be prepared for gifted and talented students to bring out their high potential ability.