"A household residing in North London is looking for an remarkable and skilled instructor to support their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the term "first-steps" as simple a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the most significant part of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to recruit a teacher for a one-year-old.
Numerous of responses have already been received since the anonymous family posted their request for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained interest in the news, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
The CEO, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their quest, stated that despite initial doubt, he considered the idea "forward-looking", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he mentioned they recognized the unconventional nature of their requirement, and how young their son is.
But, they clarified that they "preferred not to postpone any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their firstborn was five, and by that stage "cultural bias had already set in".
But what did the family mean by "cultural bias"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural norms. The family explained to him they wished to avoid history to recur with their younger child.
The strategy: To engage a English tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby from day one.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the development at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," said Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to cultivate.
The consultant explained the tutor had to be an individual who studied at "prestigious academies – similar types of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family told the expert the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or interest in horse riding, winter sports, the arts and instrumental training so as to inspire the child in a broad spectrum of interests.
More than that though, he stated the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's view, assisting their son develop into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and create opportunities.
"For all the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he comments.
Yet, notwithstanding all this guidance in "Britishness", could the child adopt so-called cultural leaning from the international family he is raised by in any case?
"Certainly", said Adam. "The family realize this could fail, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the expense of it is irrelevant," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the education sector who share those doubts.
An education leader, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer personal educators, stated that "the development of adopting dual cultures, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be experienced personally, not manufactured."
He explained that he had relocated from China to the United Kingdom at the time of seven, and had been raised understanding and living dual heritages. He went on to be educated at a prestigious UK institution.
"The notion that a single person can act as a embodiment of UK identity, a person who can in some way impart the attributes of a English gentleman to a infant child, strikes me as idealistic and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially British tutor from babyhood will not necessarily produce the outcome they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a tutor, and nevertheless I have been privileged enough to experience numerous of the situations they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, personal identity can not be imposed from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Purchasing UK Culture
Of course, English culture is something the CEO believes can be instructed – and marketed.
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