"A family located in North London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified educator to guide their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
But, it might be the crucial aspect of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Numerous of submissions have already been received since the unnamed family posted their call for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the listing has received attention across the media, with many wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that in spite of first skepticism, he found the concept "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unconventional character of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what did the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the elder child had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their infant.
The intention: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A great deal of the education at the beginning here is kind of osmotic," said Adam.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they aim to impart.
He explained the tutor needed to be an individual who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in riding, winter sports, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a diverse set of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to register the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son become a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and open doors.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", could the child adopt alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he resides with in any case?
"Yes", answered the CEO. "The parents understand this could fail, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Overly Optimistic
There are some in the education sector who have similar reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
Peter noted that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing both cultures. He continued to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can function as a embodiment of English culture, someone who can in some way impart the attributes of a British gentleman to a one-year-old child, seems to me idealistic and impractical," he stated.
"In my experience, having a typically UK tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily achieve the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the situations they hope for their son."
He stated: "The truth is, self-identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the expert believes can be educated – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the international society regards us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
