"A household based in North London seeks an extraordinary and experienced tutor to assist their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally miss the wording "beginning" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the most significant part of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a infant.
Numerous of responses have now been received since the unidentified family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has attracted attention across the press, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their search, said that despite initial scepticism, he considered the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the unusual character of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had by then set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they did not want history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is rather osmotic," explained the expert.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the British traits they aim to impart.
He explained the tutor must be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the chosen tutor should preferably also have understanding of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
However, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", answered he. "The family understand this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the education sector who express similar concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of 7 years old, and had been raised experiencing and practicing both cultures. He went on to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that an individual can serve as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can in some way transfer the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, appears idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily create the result they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live several of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, English culture is something Adam hopes can be instructed – and sold.
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