"Parents based in North London is looking for an exceptional and skilled educator to support their most junior child on his early path to becoming an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might readily skip the term "initial stages" as simple a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most important aspect of this unique job advert, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been received since the anonymous family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received notice across the news, with several questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that in spite of first scepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", Adam replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the education at the beginning here is rather osmotic," said the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor had to be somebody who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
However, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child adopt what is termed cultural bias from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", replied Adam. "They realize this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who express similar doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer private tutors, commented that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He noted that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up knowing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can function as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can somehow transplant the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me optimistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"From my perspective, employing a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will will not instantly produce the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and however I have been fortunate enough to experience several of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something Adam believes can be instructed – and commercialized.
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