"Parents located in North London seeks an extraordinary and experienced educator to assist their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily overlook the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
But, it might be the most significant aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to find a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have already been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has gained attention throughout the media, with several asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their search, said that despite first skepticism, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the atypical character of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural influence had by then become established".
What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert answered. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the elder child had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family informed Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To bring in a English tutor, who must speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be someone who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "The family know this may not work, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the tutoring industry who have those doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of Blue Education, who provides private tutors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of seven, and had been educated understanding and living dual heritages. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, a person who can possibly transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, appears naive and impractical," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a typically UK tutor from early childhood will will not necessarily achieve the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity cannot be forced from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and marketed.
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