"A family based in North London wants to find an exceptional and experienced tutor to guide their most junior child on his early path to turning into an English gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally miss the term "initial stages" as just an expression.
However, it might be the crucial part of this unique position posting, as it aims to recruit a teacher for a infant.
Numerous of responses have already been received since the unnamed family posted their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the advert has attracted attention in the press, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
A tutoring expert, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that in spite of first doubt, he found the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he consulted the family, he said they recognized the atypical aspect of their request, and how early in age their son is.
However, they clarified that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "all-encompassing", he replied. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had adopted their cultural norms. The family told him they did not want this pattern to happen again with their younger child.
The strategy: To hire a British tutor, who must speak with standard English accent, to shape the baby from day one.
Natural Absorption
"A lot of the education at the outset here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will acquire the English characteristics they aim to instil.
He said the tutor had to be someone who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The educator just has to be the appropriate candidate, they'll be performing things they aren't even aware they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family explained to Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, skiing, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of hobbies.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a range of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's minds, assisting their son become a "UK sophisticate" will bring about achievement and open doors.
"Considering the rights and wrongs of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he notes.
But, despite all this instruction in "UK identity", could the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the international family he is raised by regardless?
"Certainly", answered he. "The family know this may not work, but they've just taken the perspective of, 'we should try and we should start as quickly as we can', because the cost of it is not a concern," he stated.
Impractical
A number of in the education sector who express these reservations.
An education leader, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies individual instructors, stated that "the development of embracing two identities, or actually, becoming oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
Peter explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the age of 7 years old, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying dual heritages. He went on to learn at Cambridge University.
"The concept that a single person can function as a representation of UK identity, someone who can in some way impart the attributes of a British gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, strikes me as optimistic and impractical," he commented.
"Based on my background, employing a typically English tutor from infancy will does not automatically produce the outcome they desire.
"I never had such a tutor, and however I have been fortunate enough to live many of the experiences they desire for their son."
He stated: "The fact is, cultural identity can not be forced from the external environment; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Buying Britishness
Of course, UK identity is something the CEO thinks can be instructed – and commercialized.
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