"A family located in north London seeks an extraordinary and skilled educator to support their smallest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally overlook the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most important element of this unusual job advert, as it aims to hire a tutor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have now been submitted since the unnamed family posted their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the advert has received attention in the news, with numerous wondering why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, stated that in spite of initial skepticism, he found the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the unconventional nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already become established".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family explained to Adam they did not want history to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," explained the CEO.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will pick up the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam explained the tutor must be an individual who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family desired the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", might the child pick up what is termed cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", answered he. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
There are some in the education sector who share similar doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated understanding and living two backgrounds. He continued to study at Cambridge University.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can in some way transfer the qualities of a British gentleman upon a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he commented.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically English tutor from babyhood will does not instantly achieve the goal they want.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to experience numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
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