"A household residing in the northern part of London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to assist their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
Yet, it may be the most significant aspect of this distinctive job advert, as it aims to hire a tutor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have since been submitted since the unnamed family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received interest across the media, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that despite first skepticism, he viewed the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the atypical nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then set in".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", he answered. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed him they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their infant.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the start here is kind of osmotic," explained Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will adopt the English characteristics they aim to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed him the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Certainly", answered Adam. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who share these reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can function as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate onto a one-year-old child, strikes me as naive and unfeasible," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly UK tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to live numerous of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
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