"Parents residing in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced educator to guide their smallest child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
When reading this advertisement, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
Yet, it might be the crucial aspect of this unique job advert, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of applications have since been submitted since the unidentified family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who must be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the listing has gained notice across the media, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their hunt, explained that in spite of initial skepticism, he viewed the concept "visionary", and "advanced".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unusual aspect of their requirement, and how immature their son is.
However, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already become established".
What precisely does the family refer to by "cultural leaning"?
It's "comprehensive", he responded. "How you eat, how you speak".
He said the firstborn had adopted "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural norms. The family informed the consultant they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To hire a British tutor, who should speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby right from the beginning.
Subtle Influence
"A lot of the development at the start here is rather osmotic," stated the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they wish to impart.
Adam noted the tutor had to be someone who studied at "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, effortlessly," he commented.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the selected educator should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, artistic pursuits and musical activities so as to influence the child in a wide range of passions.
More than that though, he said the family hoped the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "British gentleman" will result in accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he adds.
However, despite all this tutelage in "English culture", could the child adopt so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he lives with regardless?
"Absolutely", answered Adam. "The family know this could fail, but they've merely embraced the view of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he said.
Overly Optimistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have these concerns.
Another CEO, head and founder of a tutoring service, who supplies individual instructors, commented that "the development of embracing two identities, or indeed, discovering oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
Peter noted that he had moved from Asia to the UK at the time of childhood, and had been brought up knowing and embodying two backgrounds. He progressed to learn at Cambridge University.
"The idea that a single person can act as a representation of Britishness, a person who can in some way impart the characteristics of a British gentleman onto a one-year-old child, seems to me naive and impractical," he wrote.
"In my experience, having a typically British tutor from babyhood will not instantly achieve the result they desire.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been fortunate enough to live numerous of the situations they aspire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Of course, English culture is something the CEO hopes can be instructed – and marketed.
"In my view the fact that the world holds us in this regard is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
