"Parents based in north London is looking for an remarkable and qualified educator to assist their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
Yet, it may be the crucial part of this unique position posting, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a infant.
Hundreds of responses have since been received since the unidentified family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has attracted interest in the news, with several questioning why?
Innovative Idea
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their search, stated that in spite of early doubt, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they appreciated the unusual nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, 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 stage "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely does the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the elder child had absorbed "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family told Adam they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the start here is kind of osmotic," said the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to instil.
He explained the tutor needed to be someone who went to "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed him the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he notes.
Yet, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb alleged cultural leaning from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The family understand this may not work, but they've merely embraced the view 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
A number of in the private teaching field who share these concerns.
An education leader, chief executive of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been educated experiencing and practicing dual heritages. He went on to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that one individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can in some way transplant the qualities of a British gentleman onto a infant child, strikes me as naive and unrealistic," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from infancy will does not automatically create the goal they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be taught – and sold.
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