"Parents based in North London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled instructor to support their smallest child on his initial journey to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the crucial aspect of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of applications have already been sent in since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained notice in the press, with many questioning why?
Innovative Idea
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, said that despite first scepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the atypical aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", he responded. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family told him they did not want the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The intention: To hire a British tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather acquired indirectly," said Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will adopt the British traits they want to impart.
The consultant said the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he notes.
Yet, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", could the child pick up so-called cultural leaning from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", said Adam. "They realize this could fail, but they've just taken the view of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who express those doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of an educational organization, who provides private tutors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of 7 years old, and had been brought up understanding and embodying both cultures. He continued to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that one individual can serve as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can possibly impart the qualities of a English gentleman to a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he commented.
"From my perspective, employing a typically British tutor from early childhood will will not automatically achieve the outcome they desire.
"I did not have such a figure, and however I have been privileged enough to experience many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, cultural identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO believes can be educated – and sold.
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