"Parents located in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily skip the phrase "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most important element of this distinctive job advert, as it attempts to hire a teacher for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have now been sent in since the anonymous family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the post has attracted interest throughout the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that in spite of early skepticism, he considered the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he noted they recognized the unconventional character of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what does the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the beginning here is somewhat osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in horse riding, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
But, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "The family understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the private teaching field who express those concerns.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who provides private tutors, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been brought up understanding and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can act as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can in some way impart the qualities of a British gentleman onto a one-year-old child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will does not necessarily create the goal they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and sold.
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