"A household based in the northern part of London seeks an exceptional and qualified instructor to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
But, it may be the most important element of this distinctive position posting, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have since been received since the anonymous family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained interest in the media, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding first skepticism, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unconventional aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the development at the outset here is kind of osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they want to impart.
He explained the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or passion in riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in accomplishment and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he resides with regardless?
"Yes", said he. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he stated.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who have these doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the period of seven, and had been raised understanding and living dual heritages. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can serve as a living vessel of English culture, someone who can possibly impart the qualities of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a typically UK tutor from babyhood will not automatically produce the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and however I have been lucky enough to live several of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
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