"A family based in north London is looking for an extraordinary and experienced educator to guide their most junior child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
But, it may be the most significant element of this distinctive job advert, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been received since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained interest throughout the press, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, said that notwithstanding first scepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual character of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they did not want the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to impart.
He said the tutor must be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator must be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he adds.
But, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the private teaching field who have these concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
Peter noted that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can possibly transplant the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, appears idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically British tutor from babyhood will does not automatically create the outcome they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something the expert hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
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