"Parents based in the northern part of London seeks an remarkable and experienced educator to support their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily overlook the wording "first-steps" as simple figurative language.
However, it could be the crucial element of this distinctive job advert, as it seeks to hire a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of submissions have since been sent in since the anonymous family published their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has received attention across the press, with numerous questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, head and founder of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their quest, explained that notwithstanding early skepticism, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they recognized the atypical nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
But, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What exactly did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they did not want the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the education at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
The consultant noted the tutor must be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, winter sports, the arts and music so as to influence the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", said he. "The parents know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the education sector who express these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer private tutors, wrote that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been brought up knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a representation of Britishness, an individual who can possibly impart the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a typically English tutor from babyhood will does not instantly achieve the goal they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and yet I have been privileged enough to live many of the situations they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, self-identity can not be imposed from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO believes can be taught – and sold.
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