"Parents located in north London wants to find an exceptional and skilled tutor to support their smallest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might readily miss the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
However, it might be the most significant aspect of this unique employment listing, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have since been received since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the advert has received attention in the media, with many wondering why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding first skepticism, he found the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the atypical nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
But, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already become established".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," stated the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
The consultant noted the tutor must be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in success and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child adopt what is termed cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", said he. "The parents know this could fail, but they've merely embraced 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 a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who express those doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, commented that "the journey of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert noted that he had moved from China to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been raised understanding and embodying both cultures. He continued to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, someone who can possibly transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, engaging a typically UK tutor from infancy will does not instantly create the result they desire.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to live many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, cultural identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the expert thinks can be taught – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the international society regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
