"Parents located in the northern part of London seeks an extraordinary and qualified tutor to support their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might readily miss the wording "initial stages" as mere an expression.
However, it might be the most important element of this unique employment listing, as it aims to find a mentor for a infant.
Many of applications have now been received since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received interest in the press, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, said that notwithstanding early doubt, he viewed the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the atypical character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already become established".
But what did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he responded. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "really subtle, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a British tutor, who must speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat osmotic," stated the expert.
It's via this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to instil.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told him the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or interest in riding, winter sports, creative fields and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he adds.
However, in spite of all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", replied Adam. "The family know this might not succeed, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the private teaching field who share similar doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies personal educators, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
He explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the Britain at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He progressed to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can function as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can somehow transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a 12-month-old child, seems to me optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, engaging a distinctly English tutor from infancy will does not necessarily create the goal they desire.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to experience numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO believes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the international society views us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
