"A family based in north London is looking for an exceptional and experienced tutor to guide their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it could be the most important element of this unusual employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have now been submitted since the unidentified family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received interest throughout the news, with numerous asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that despite first scepticism, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he noted they recognized the unusual character of their demand, and how young their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "really subtle, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the development at the beginning here is kind of absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the British traits they wish to instil.
Adam explained the tutor had to be someone who went to "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in riding, winter sports, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a diverse set of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool 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 success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he resides with regardless?
"Yes", answered the CEO. "They realize this may not work, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who share these concerns.
An education leader, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
He wrote that he had moved from China to the UK at the period of seven, and had been raised experiencing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can act as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can in some way transfer the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will does not necessarily create the outcome they want.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to enjoy several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, cultural identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert believes can be taught – and sold.
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