"A family located in North London seeks an remarkable and qualified educator to support their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily skip the wording "first-steps" as mere figurative language.
However, it may be the most significant aspect of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Hundreds of applications have since been sent in since the anonymous family published their call for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the post has received notice across the press, with many asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their search, stated that in spite of early scepticism, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unusual nature of their demand, and how young their son is.
However, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had by then become established".
What exactly does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam answered. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family explained to him they hoped to prevent history to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the learning at the outset here is rather acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are hoping the child will adopt the British traits they want to cultivate.
He said the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Money No Object
The family told the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Additionally though, he explained the family wanted the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he notes.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", might the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the international family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", replied the CEO. "They know this could fail, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the tutoring industry who express these doubts.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not designed."
He wrote that he had moved from China to the United Kingdom at the period of seven, and had been educated understanding and embodying both cultures. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can act as a living vessel of Britishness, a person who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate to a one-year-old child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly British tutor from early childhood will will not instantly create the result they hope for.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something Adam hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
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