"Parents located in north London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled instructor to guide their most junior child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
However, it might be the most significant part of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of submissions have since been submitted since the unidentified family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained interest throughout the media, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that in spite of initial scepticism, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the atypical character of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already set in".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told him they hoped to prevent history to recur with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is somewhat osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
He noted the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
However, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child adopt what is termed cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Certainly", said he. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have these concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from China to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and living dual heritages. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can in some way impart the attributes of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, employing a typically UK tutor from infancy will does not automatically achieve the result they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to live many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity can not be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and sold.
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