"Parents residing in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and skilled tutor to assist their smallest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might easily skip the term "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the crucial aspect of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have already been received since the unidentified family published their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has received notice throughout the news, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that in spite of early skepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he met the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
However, they explained 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 stage "cultural influence had by then become established".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "How you eat, the way you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed him they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the outset here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they aim to instil.
Adam said the tutor must be an individual who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family told him the chosen tutor should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child absorb what is termed cultural influence from the international family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The family understand this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who have these reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who provides personal educators, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can act as a embodiment of Britishness, someone who can possibly impart the qualities of a English gentleman to a infant child, appears optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, having a typically British tutor from infancy will does not instantly achieve the result they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to live numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the outside; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert believes can be educated – and sold.
"In my view the reality that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
