"A family based in North London is looking for an remarkable and experienced educator to support their most junior child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally overlook the phrase "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it may be the crucial element of this unique job advert, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have since been submitted since the anonymous family published their request for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received notice throughout the media, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their search, explained that in spite of early skepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
What exactly does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", 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 assumed their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid history to recur with their younger child.
The intention: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the learning at the outset here is rather osmotic," stated Adam.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
The consultant noted the tutor had to be someone who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or passion in horse riding, alpine skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
But, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child adopt alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", answered the CEO. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and let's go as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who share similar doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He explained that he had emigrated from Asia to the UK at the period of childhood, and had been raised knowing and practicing both cultures. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can act as a representation of UK identity, an individual who can possibly impart the attributes of a British gentleman to a infant child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will not automatically achieve the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity can not be imposed from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must come from within."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, Britishness is something the expert hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
"I believe the fact that the global community regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
