"Parents residing in the northern part of London wants to find an remarkable and experienced tutor to support their youngest child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might easily miss the phrase "first-steps" as mere a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the most important part of this unique employment listing, as it attempts to find a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have already been sent in since the unidentified family published their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained interest in the news, with several asking why?
Innovative Idea
The CEO, chief executive of an education consultancy, which is helping the family in their quest, said that in spite of early doubt, he considered the concept "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they understood the unusual aspect of their demand, and how young their son is.
Nevertheless, they stated that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their elder sibling was five, and by that age "cultural bias had already taken hold".
What exactly did the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", the expert responded. "The manner you eat, the way you speak".
He explained the firstborn had absorbed "very nuanced, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural ways. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent the same situation to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To hire a UK tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"A lot of the learning at the start here is kind of acquired indirectly," stated Adam.
It's through this osmosis that the family are aiming the child will acquire the UK customs they wish to cultivate.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who attended "prestigious academies – comparable categories of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the right kind of person, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he added.
Expense Not a Factor
The family explained to the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in riding, alpine skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
Furthermore though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and starting an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to accomplishment and create opportunities.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he notes.
But, notwithstanding all this instruction in "English culture", would the child absorb alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The family understand this might not succeed, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'why not attempt it and we should start as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he said.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the education sector who share those doubts.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the journey of embracing two identities, or in fact, forming one's identity, is something that must be experienced personally, not engineered."
Peter wrote that he had relocated from Asia to the United Kingdom at the time of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and embodying dual heritages. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The notion that one individual can function as a representation of Britishness, a person who can possibly transfer the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a infant child, appears naive and impractical," he stated.
"From my perspective, engaging a typically English tutor from infancy will will not instantly achieve the outcome they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience several of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must come from within."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, Britishness is something the CEO thinks can be taught – and marketed.
"I think the fact that the international society holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
