"A family located in North London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled instructor to guide their most junior child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
Yet, it might be the most important part of this distinctive job advert, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have now been received since the unnamed family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted notice throughout the press, with many wondering why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he found the concept "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family told Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To hire a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is somewhat absorbed naturally," explained Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the British traits they wish to cultivate.
He explained the tutor had to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he adds.
However, in spite of all this instruction in "UK identity", might the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who share these concerns.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who also offer personal educators, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
He wrote that he had emigrated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying both cultures. He went on to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can act as a representation of English culture, someone who can in some way transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, having a typically UK tutor from infancy will will not instantly achieve the goal they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
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