"A household based in North London seeks an extraordinary and experienced educator to guide their most junior child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily skip the wording "beginning" as simple an expression.
However, it could be the most significant aspect of this unique employment listing, as it aims to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have since been submitted since the unidentified family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest in the media, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that despite early scepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they understood the atypical nature of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already set in".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family informed him they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the learning at the beginning here is somewhat acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the British traits they wish to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in equestrian activities, skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of passions.
More than that though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and create opportunities.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a status symbol," he comments.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "UK identity", might the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The family realize this may not work, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share these concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and living two backgrounds. He went on to study at a prestigious UK institution.
"The idea that a single person can function as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can somehow transplant the qualities of a English gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a typically UK tutor from babyhood will not necessarily create the outcome they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, cultural identity cannot be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the fact that the world holds us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
