"Parents based in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this listing, you might easily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it could be the crucial element of this distinctive employment listing, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have since been received since the anonymous family published their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received attention across the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding initial scepticism, he viewed the plan "visionary", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they appreciated the unusual character of their demand, and how immature 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 stage "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What precisely did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family informed the consultant they wished to avoid the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the beginning here is rather acquired indirectly," stated the expert.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will acquire the British traits they wish to impart.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family explained to Adam the selected educator should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons 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 view, helping their son become a "British gentleman" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
However, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", answered he. "They realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as soon as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who express similar reservations.
Another CEO, head and founder of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert noted that he had moved from China to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can act as a representation of Britishness, someone who can somehow impart the qualities of a English gentleman onto a infant child, appears idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a typically UK tutor from early childhood will does not automatically create the result they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and yet I have been privileged enough to experience several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, UK identity is something Adam hopes can be instructed – and sold.
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