"Parents based in North London wants to find an exceptional and qualified tutor to assist their most junior child on his early path to growing into an English gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might readily overlook the term "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most important aspect of this unique job advert, as it seeks to hire a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of applications have since been sent in since the anonymous family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the post has received interest across the media, with many asking why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, stated that notwithstanding early skepticism, he considered the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they recognized the unusual character of their requirement, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then set in".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family informed Adam they did not want this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The intention: To bring in a British tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the beginning here is rather acquired indirectly," stated the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will acquire the UK customs they want to instil.
Adam said the tutor must be an individual who attended "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family desired the tutor to register the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
But, despite all this tutelage in "Britishness", would the child pick up alleged cultural bias from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", said the CEO. "The family know this may not work, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
There are some in the private teaching field who have these reservations.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, wrote that "the development of becoming bicultural, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not designed."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been raised knowing and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that one individual can act as a embodiment of UK identity, an individual who can in some way transplant the attributes of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a typically English tutor from babyhood will not automatically create the goal they hope for.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and marketed.
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