"A household located in the northern part of London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified instructor to support their youngest child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this post, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most significant element of this unique job advert, as it seeks to find a mentor for a infant.
Many of submissions have since been received since the anonymous family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained interest in the news, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their quest, said that despite initial doubt, he viewed the plan "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional aspect of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", the expert answered. "The way you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told the consultant they wished to avoid history to happen again with their new baby.
The plan: To bring in a British tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to guide the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the education at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," stated the CEO.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they aim to impart.
The consultant explained the tutor needed to be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to the expert the chosen tutor should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will result in achievement and provide access.
"Taking into account the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, despite all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child absorb alleged cultural influence from the international family he lives with anyway?
"Certainly", answered he. "The parents realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'let's give it a go and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the tutoring industry who share these reservations.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had moved from China to the Britain at the period of childhood, and had been brought up experiencing and living two backgrounds. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that one individual can act as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can in some way transplant the characteristics of a UK sophisticate onto a infant child, seems to me naive and impractical," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will not necessarily create the result they desire.
"I did not have such a figure, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they hope for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something Adam believes can be educated – and sold.
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