"Parents residing in North London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it may be the most significant aspect of this unique position posting, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have now been sent in since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest throughout the press, with many questioning why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, explained that despite first scepticism, he found the idea "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unusual character of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert replied. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural habits. The family informed him they wished to avoid history to happen again with their younger child.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the beginning here is somewhat absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son become a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The parents understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He explained that he had relocated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of seven, and had been educated understanding and living dual heritages. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that a single person can function as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will not instantly produce the result they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, personal identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something Adam thinks can be taught – and marketed.
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