"Parents located in North London seeks an extraordinary and skilled instructor to support their most junior child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally overlook the phrase "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the crucial aspect of this unique job advert, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have now been received since the unnamed family posted their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has received attention across the media, with numerous wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, stated that notwithstanding early doubt, he considered the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he said they recognized the atypical nature of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", he replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent history to repeat itself with their younger child.
The plan: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's through this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
Adam explained the tutor had to be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in success and open doors.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", would the child pick up so-called cultural influence from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the tutoring industry who share those reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer private tutors, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
He explained that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the time of seven, and had been raised experiencing and practicing both cultures. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can function as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can possibly transplant the characteristics of a English gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, appears naive and unfeasible," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will not necessarily create the result they desire.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to live several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, self-identity should not be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the expert thinks can be educated – and marketed.
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