"Parents residing in North London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to guide their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily skip the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial part of this unique employment listing, as it aims to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have already been sent in since the anonymous family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has received interest throughout the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, explained that in spite of initial scepticism, he considered the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the atypical nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already become established".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to him they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is somewhat osmotic," explained Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the British traits they aim to impart.
He noted the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will lead to success and create opportunities.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
However, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child adopt what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", replied the CEO. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have similar reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of an educational organization, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated understanding and practicing both cultures. He progressed to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a representation of UK identity, a person who can in some way impart the qualities of a English gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, appears idealistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a distinctly British tutor from infancy will does not automatically produce the result they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be taught – and sold.
"I believe the situation that the global community views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
