"Parents residing in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled educator to guide their most junior child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might readily miss the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
But, it may be the most important part of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have since been sent in since the anonymous family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained interest across the media, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their search, said that in spite of early scepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
But, 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 by then taken hold".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he answered. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family explained to him they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the education at the start here is somewhat absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they aim to cultivate.
Adam said the tutor must be someone who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in horse riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he notes.
However, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child adopt what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he lives with in any case?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "The parents know this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the private teaching field who express similar reservations.
Peter Cui, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, stated that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised experiencing and embodying both cultures. He continued to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, an individual who can somehow impart the attributes of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, appears optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a typically UK tutor from early childhood will will not automatically achieve the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, Britishness is something the expert believes can be instructed – and sold.
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