"Parents residing in North London wants to find an exceptional and skilled educator to support their smallest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally miss the phrase "initial stages" as just figurative language.
However, it may be the most important aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to recruit a mentor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of applications have already been sent in since the unnamed family posted their request for the highly paid tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted notice across the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that in spite of initial scepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the development at the start here is rather absorbed naturally," explained the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are expecting the child will adopt the UK customs they aim to cultivate.
He noted the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed him the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or interest in riding, winter sports, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a range of courses so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he comments.
However, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The parents know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and let's go as early as we can', because the price of it is not a concern," he said.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who have similar reservations.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
Peter explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the United Kingdom at the period of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing both cultures. He continued to be educated at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can function as a embodiment of Britishness, someone who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a English gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, appears naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a typically English tutor from babyhood will will not automatically produce the result they desire.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, personal identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be taught – and commercialized.
"In my view the reality that the international society regards us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
