"Parents based in north London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to guide their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
Yet, it may be the most significant aspect of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Many of submissions have already been received since the anonymous family published their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted notice in the press, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding first skepticism, he found the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam answered. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the elder child had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed the consultant they did not want history to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," stated Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to Adam the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, notwithstanding all this guidance in "English culture", would the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the tutoring industry who have those doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert noted that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and living dual heritages. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can function as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a typically UK tutor from early childhood will does not automatically create the outcome they desire.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
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