It is an excitement to meet a great well-known international scholar during one's academic journey, just like when you meet a great docent in art museum to guide you with professional knowledge and passion. In The Good Guide, a good docent is one with a magic flute whose music can lead the audience to enter a fantastic world of wonderment and amusement. To me, both scholarly and personally, professor Michael J. Parsons is a perfect model to illustrate this kind of excellent docent qualities in the academic world of art education. It is one's great fortune to meet a great professor who has such magical characteristics during academic journey. I first got to know him in academic literature and then become acquainted with him personally. Knowing such a great scholar has since intrigued my passion to study art education. This paper is a brief discussion on Parsons' academic accomplishments and scholarly spirits through the theory of great docent by Edwards (1976). Three characteristics of a great docent, proposed by Edwards, are: knowledge, passion, and affinity; these will be used to guide my discussion. The first part is discussion on his academic background, teachings, and research contributions. Also, his well-known theoretical contributions on constructing children’s aesthetic understanding in ten years are discussed. The second part is on his passion in academic teaching. The hird part is on his affinity, which is illustrated through my three personal interviews with three of his disciples in Taiwan's academia. These three art educators were advised under Parsons during their graduate study at The Ohio State University. Text analysis of relevant art educational literature, and open-ended questionnaire and face-to-face interviews are the research methods used in this research paper.