"A household located in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and skilled tutor to assist their youngest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily miss the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it could be the crucial aspect of this unique position posting, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have already been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received notice across the media, with numerous questioning why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, explained that notwithstanding first doubt, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual aspect of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already become established".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had picked up "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to him they did not want this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," explained the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – similar types 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 don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", could the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by in any case?
"Certainly", replied the CEO. "They know this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the tutoring industry who share these doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
Peter noted that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been educated understanding and living dual heritages. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a English gentleman to a 12-month-old child, appears naive and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, having a quintessentially English tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily achieve the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to experience many of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be imposed from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be taught – and marketed.
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