"A household based in North London is looking for an remarkable and skilled tutor to guide their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily skip the wording "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it may be the most significant part of this unique job advert, as it attempts to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have now been submitted since the unnamed family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has attracted interest in the news, with numerous wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that in spite of early scepticism, he found the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the unusual nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam replied. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had absorbed "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family told Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with RP, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the learning at the start here is somewhat acquired indirectly," explained the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they want to instil.
The consultant said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he stated the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, despite all this instruction in "English culture", could the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as soon as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who have these reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who provides private tutors, stated that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised understanding and living two backgrounds. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can serve as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can possibly transplant the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a typically English tutor from early childhood will will not automatically achieve the outcome they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy many of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the reality that the international society views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
