"Parents based in north London is looking for an exceptional and qualified instructor to assist their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this advertisement, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as simple figurative language.
However, it might be the crucial aspect of this unusual employment listing, as it aims to hire a teacher for a infant.
Hundreds of submissions have now been sent in since the unidentified family advertised their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who has to be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the listing has received notice throughout the media, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, stated that despite initial doubt, he considered the concept "visionary", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he noted they recognized the atypical nature of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already taken hold".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam replied. "How you eat, how you speak".
He stated the elder child had absorbed "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family informed the consultant they did not want the same situation to happen again with their infant.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the development at the outset here is kind of acquired indirectly," said the CEO.
It's by means of this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they wish to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor had to be an individual who went to "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator must be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the chosen tutor should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
Furthermore though, he stated the family wanted the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, helping their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will result in success and create opportunities.
"Taking into account the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
Yet, in spite of all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child absorb what is termed cultural leaning from the multicultural family he lives with regardless?
"Certainly", replied the CEO. "The parents know this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the private teaching field who share similar concerns.
An education leader, chief executive of a tutoring service, who provides private tutors, stated that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or in fact, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He noted that he had moved from Asia to the Britain at the age of childhood, and had been educated knowing and living dual heritages. He progressed to learn at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can function as a living vessel of Britishness, someone who can somehow impart the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a one-year-old child, appears naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"In my experience, employing a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will does not automatically produce the result they want.
"I did not have such a tutor, and however I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, self-identity can not be dictated from the outside influences; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Certainly, English culture is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and commercialized.
"I believe the situation that the global community regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
