"A family based in North London wants to find an extraordinary and skilled instructor to guide their youngest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might readily skip the term "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it might be the most important part of this distinctive employment listing, as it attempts to find a tutor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have now been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the post has received attention throughout the news, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding early scepticism, he considered the concept "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he noted they recognized the atypical aspect of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural bias had by then set in".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural leaning"?
It's "all-encompassing", the expert replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to Adam they wished to avoid this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who needs to speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the learning at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will adopt the British traits they want to impart.
The consultant said the tutor must be someone who studied at "the appropriate educational institutions – the same kinds of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he added.
Money No Object
The family informed him the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Furthermore though, he stated the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety 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 view, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child absorb what is termed cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with anyway?
"Yes", answered he. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
Several in the education sector who share those doubts.
Another CEO, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides individual instructors, wrote that "the process of becoming bicultural, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
The expert explained that he had moved from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to study at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can act as a embodiment of Britishness, a person who can somehow impart the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a 12-month-old child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will does not necessarily produce the result they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, self-identity should not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Naturally, Britishness is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and commercialized.
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