"Parents based in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled educator to support their most junior child on his early path to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
However, it may be the most important element of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to find a tutor for a infant.
Numerous of responses have now been received since the unidentified family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained attention in the news, with numerous wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, chief executive of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that in spite of initial skepticism, he considered the idea "visionary", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unusual aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already become established".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family told him they wished to avoid the same situation to repeat itself with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," stated Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
He noted the tutor had to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the selected educator should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a range of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and create opportunities.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he adds.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", replied Adam. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who express those doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
He noted that he had moved from China to the UK at the time of seven, and had been brought up knowing and practicing both cultures. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can act as a embodiment of Britishness, an individual who can possibly transplant the attributes of a English gentleman upon a one-year-old child, strikes me as optimistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly English tutor from babyhood will will not instantly create the result they hope for.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, English culture is something the expert believes can be educated – and commercialized.
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