"Parents residing in north London wants to find an extraordinary and experienced educator to assist their youngest child on his early path to turning into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might naturally skip the wording "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most important element of this unusual employment listing, as it seeks to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of submissions have now been sent in since the anonymous family published their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has attracted notice across the news, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that in spite of initial doubt, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the atypical character of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already set in".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told the consultant they did not want history to recur with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained the expert.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they want to impart.
The consultant said the tutor had to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
But, notwithstanding all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Yes", answered Adam. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who express these reservations.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and living both cultures. He continued to study at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can act as a embodiment of English culture, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a infant child, appears optimistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, having a quintessentially English tutor from early childhood will will not automatically produce the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been fortunate enough to live many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be instructed – and marketed.
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