"A family based in the northern part of London is looking for an exceptional and skilled tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might readily miss the wording "initial stages" as just an expression.
Yet, it could be the most important aspect of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to hire a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Hundreds of responses have already been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received attention across the media, with numerous wondering why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their quest, stated that notwithstanding first skepticism, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional nature of their demand, and how immature their son is.
However, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural influence had already taken hold".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he responded. "The manner you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "really subtle, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the development at the outset here is somewhat absorbed naturally," said the CEO.
It's by means of this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will adopt the English characteristics they want to instil.
He explained the tutor had to be someone who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, creative fields and music so as to inspire the child in a wide range of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of courses so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "English gentleman" will result in success and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he notes.
However, despite all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child pick up what is termed cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", answered he. "The family realize this might not succeed, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'we should try and we'll proceed as soon as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the tutoring industry who share these doubts.
An education leader, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, stated that "the journey of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
Peter noted that he had emigrated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the age of seven, and had been brought up experiencing and living two backgrounds. He went on to learn at Cambridge University.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a living vessel of UK identity, a person who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a English gentleman upon a infant child, appears idealistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, having a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will will not automatically achieve the goal they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and marketed.
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