"A household residing in the northern part of London is looking for an extraordinary and experienced tutor to assist their youngest child on his early path to growing into an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally miss the wording "initial stages" as just a turn of phrase.
However, it could be the crucial part of this unusual position posting, as it seeks to recruit a tutor for a one-year-old.
Numerous of submissions have now been submitted since the unnamed family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who must be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has attracted notice throughout the news, with many wondering why?
Progressive Approach
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their search, explained that in spite of initial scepticism, he considered the plan "far sighted", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the atypical character of their demand, and how early in age their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their firstborn was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already become established".
What exactly does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", Adam replied. "The way you eat, how you speak".
He stated the older sibling had adopted "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural ways. The family explained to him they did not want this pattern to repeat itself with their new baby.
The plan: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with RP, to influence the baby from the very start.
Subtle Influence
"A great deal of the education at the outset here is somewhat osmotic," said the expert.
It's by means of this subtle influence that the family are hoping the child will adopt the UK customs they aim to instil.
Adam explained the tutor must be an individual who went to "the right kinds of schools – the same kinds of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor simply needs to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be doing things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family informed the expert the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or passion in riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a wide range of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "equestrian training and learning an musical instrument by the time they are approximately three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son become a "British gentleman" will bring about accomplishment and open doors.
"For all the pros and cons of that, because it's undoubtedly a class statement," he adds.
However, despite all this instruction in "English culture", could the child pick up so-called cultural bias from the multicultural family he resides with anyway?
"Certainly", answered he. "They know this may not work, but they've simply adopted the attitude of, 'let's give it a go and let's go as early as we can', because the cost of it is irrelevant," he said.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who have these reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the development of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
The expert wrote that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the period of seven, and had been raised knowing and living dual heritages. He went on to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The notion that one individual can function as a representation of Britishness, someone who can possibly transfer the qualities of a UK sophisticate upon a infant child, seems to me naive and unfeasible," he stated.
"In my experience, engaging a quintessentially UK tutor from early childhood will not instantly create the result they hope for.
"I did not have such a tutor, and yet I have been lucky enough to enjoy several of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be forced from the outside; it must be selected, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the CEO believes can be taught – and marketed.
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