"Parents located in north London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to support their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as simple an expression.
However, it could be the most important aspect of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of submissions have already been received since the unnamed family advertised their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received attention across the media, with numerous asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he found the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already set in".
What precisely did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had picked up "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the outset here is rather osmotic," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they wish to impart.
Adam explained the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will result in accomplishment and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", said he. "The family realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who express those concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the period of seven, and had been educated understanding and embodying both cultures. He progressed to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will does not automatically create the outcome they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity should not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, UK identity is something Adam believes can be educated – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the global community views us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
