"Parents residing in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled instructor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might easily miss the wording "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most significant part of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have since been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has attracted attention throughout the news, with many wondering why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, chief executive of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, stated that despite early doubt, he found the plan "visionary", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they appreciated the atypical aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified 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 age "cultural bias had already become established".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family told Adam they did not want history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the outset here is somewhat absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – 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 performing things they don't even know they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he adds.
However, despite all this guidance in "English culture", might the child pick up what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "The parents understand this might not succeed, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and let's go as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share these doubts.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, wrote that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
Peter noted that he had relocated from China to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up understanding and embodying dual heritages. He continued to study at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a representation of English culture, someone who can possibly impart the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, seems to me optimistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will does not automatically create the goal they desire.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy many of the situations they hope for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, English culture is something the expert believes can be educated – and commercialized.
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