"Parents based in North London seeks an remarkable and experienced instructor to support their youngest child on his first steps to turning into an English gentleman."
Upon seeing this listing, you might naturally miss the wording "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
But, it could be the most significant part of this distinctive position posting, as it attempts to recruit a tutor for a infant.
Many of applications have now been received since the unnamed family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "an exceptional individual".
During the past few weeks, the post has gained attention throughout the news, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, head and founder of Tutors International, which is supporting the family in their quest, explained that in spite of early scepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he mentioned they appreciated the atypical character of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had held off until their older child was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already set in".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the elder child had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to the consultant they wished to avoid this pattern to recur with their new baby.
The strategy: To bring in a UK tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the outset here is kind of osmotic," explained Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor had to be someone who attended "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The instructor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to 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.
Furthermore though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son grow into a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's certainly a social class indicator," he notes.
But, in spite of all this instruction in "Britishness", would the child pick up alleged cultural influence from the multicultural family he lives with anyway?
"Absolutely", replied he. "The parents realize this could fail, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'let's give it a go and we should start as early as we can', because the cost of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
Several in the education sector who express similar doubts.
An education leader, chief executive of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of embracing two identities, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
Peter explained that he had emigrated from China to the UK at the time of seven, and had been educated experiencing and embodying two backgrounds. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that an individual can serve as a embodiment of English culture, an individual who can possibly impart the qualities of a British gentleman onto a one-year-old child, appears naive and impractical," he wrote.
"From my perspective, having a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will not automatically achieve the goal they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and yet I have been fortunate enough to experience numerous of the opportunities they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The reality is, personal identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO hopes can be educated – and sold.
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