"A family based in North London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to assist their youngest child on his initial journey to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this listing, you might readily overlook the phrase "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it could be the crucial part of this distinctive employment listing, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been submitted since the unnamed family published their request for the £180,000 per year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
Over the last few weeks, the post has received interest in the press, with several asking why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their hunt, explained that in spite of initial doubt, he viewed the plan "forward-looking", and "progressive".
When he spoke with the family, he said they appreciated the atypical aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had already become established".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", Adam replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they did not want history to recur with their infant.
The intention: To bring in a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"A great deal of the education at the beginning here is rather osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's via this osmosis that the family are expecting the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to cultivate.
He explained the tutor must be an individual who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they don't even know they're doing, effortlessly," he said.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to him the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in equestrian activities, alpine skiing, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a diverse set of hobbies.
More than that though, he said the family wanted the tutor to register the child on a range of lessons so the child would be "equestrian training and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son develop into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a class statement," he comments.
But, notwithstanding all this guidance in "UK identity", could the child adopt what is termed cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by anyway?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "The parents understand this may not work, but they've simply adopted the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who have these concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of an educational organization, who provides personal educators, commented that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or indeed, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
He wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the UK at the period of 7 years old, and had been educated understanding and embodying both cultures. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that an individual can act as a living vessel of UK identity, an individual who can possibly transplant the attributes of a English gentleman onto a one-year-old child, appears optimistic and unfeasible," he stated.
"From my perspective, having a typically English tutor from infancy will does not automatically produce the result they desire.
"I never had that kind of mentor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to enjoy several of the experiences they hope for their son."
He continued: "The truth is, self-identity can not be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, English culture is something Adam hopes can be instructed – and commercialized.
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