"Parents based in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and qualified educator to guide their youngest child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally miss the term "first-steps" as simple figurative language.
However, it may be the crucial part of this distinctive employment listing, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of responses have now been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their request for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received notice in the news, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that despite initial doubt, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already set in".
What exactly does the family mean by "cultural leaning"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the older sibling had absorbed "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the development at the outset here is kind of absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's via this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they wish to instil.
The consultant said the tutor must be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed him the chosen tutor should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in horse riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to achievement and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
Yet, despite all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child absorb so-called cultural leaning from the international family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", replied Adam. "They know this could fail, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who have these concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, commented that "the development of becoming bicultural, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
The expert noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The concept that an individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, someone who can in some way transfer the qualities of a English gentleman onto a 12-month-old child, strikes me as idealistic and impractical," he wrote.
"Based on my background, employing a typically British tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live several of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must come from within."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be instructed – and marketed.
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