"Parents located in North London wants to find an remarkable and experienced instructor to support their smallest child on his first steps to turning into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might readily miss the term "beginning" as just figurative language.
But, it may be the most significant element of this unique position posting, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have already been received since the unidentified family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the post has gained attention in the press, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of Tutors International, which is assisting the family in their search, explained that despite initial scepticism, he found the plan "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he said they understood the unusual aspect of their request, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam replied. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "very nuanced, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the outset here is kind of absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they wish to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he notes.
However, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "English culture", would the child absorb so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share these concerns.
An education leader, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
He wrote that he had moved from China to the UK at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and embodying both cultures. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that a single person can serve as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can somehow impart the qualities of a British gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically English tutor from infancy will will not necessarily create the outcome they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to experience numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be instructed – and sold.
"In my view the fact that the global community views us in this respect is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
