"Parents based in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced educator to support their smallest child on his initial journey to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might naturally miss the phrase "beginning" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it could be the most significant element of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to find a teacher for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have already been submitted since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
Over the last few weeks, the advert has gained notice throughout the media, with several wondering why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their quest, said that in spite of early doubt, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they understood the unconventional character of their request, and how early in age their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then become established".
What precisely does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", he answered. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to influence the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the learning at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they want to impart.
Adam said the tutor had to be somebody who attended "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they don't even know they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family told the expert the selected educator should preferably also have familiarity of or passion in equestrian activities, winter sports, artistic pursuits and music so as to influence the child in a diverse set of passions.
Additionally though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a range of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an tool by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will lead to success and provide access.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he notes.
But, notwithstanding all this tutelage in "Britishness", might the child pick up so-called cultural influence from the international family he is raised by anyway?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The parents know this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the private teaching field who share these concerns.
Another CEO, chief executive of Blue Education, who provides personal educators, commented that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He explained that he had relocated from Asia to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and practicing two backgrounds. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can function as a representation of UK identity, someone who can in some way transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, strikes me as optimistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"Based on my background, engaging a distinctly British tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily achieve the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with that kind of mentor, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy numerous of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The reality is, cultural identity cannot be forced from the external environment; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be educated – and commercialized.
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