"A family residing in the northern part of London is looking for an remarkable and experienced instructor to guide their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might easily overlook the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
But, it might be the most important aspect of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Numerous of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family posted their search for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
During the past few weeks, the listing has attracted notice across the news, with many wondering why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, head and founder of an education consultancy, which is supporting the family in their hunt, said that notwithstanding initial skepticism, he found the idea "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he noted they appreciated the unusual nature of their request, and how early in age their son is.
But, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to get a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had by then set in".
But what does the family mean by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", he answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed Adam they did not want this pattern to recur with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a English tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the learning at the start here is somewhat osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the UK customs they want to instil.
Adam noted the tutor had to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should ideally also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will bring about accomplishment and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he comments.
However, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child adopt so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he resides with anyway?
"Absolutely", answered he. "The parents know this could fail, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as soon as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the tutoring industry who express those doubts.
Peter Cui, chief executive of an educational organization, who supplies private tutors, stated that "the process of becoming bicultural, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not designed."
The expert noted that he had relocated from the Far East to the Britain at the time of 7 years old, and had been educated knowing and living two backgrounds. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can serve as a embodiment of UK identity, someone who can somehow transfer the qualities of a English gentleman onto a infant child, appears idealistic and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a typically UK tutor from early childhood will not automatically create the result they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the experiences they desire for their son."
He added: "The reality is, self-identity should not be forced from the external environment; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, Britishness is something Adam thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
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