"A family residing in North London wants to find an extraordinary and qualified educator to assist their most junior child on his first steps to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally overlook the wording "initial stages" as mere figurative language.
But, it could be the crucial aspect of this unusual job advert, as it seeks to find a mentor for a one-year-old.
Many of responses have since been received since the unidentified family posted their search for the £180,000 per year tutor, who has to be "a uniquely qualified person".
Over the last few weeks, the listing has received attention in the news, with numerous asking why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, head and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is assisting the family in their quest, said that in spite of early skepticism, he considered the concept "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unusual character of their requirement, and how early in age their son is.
However, they clarified that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to engage a tutor, as they had postponed until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural influence had already taken hold".
But what does the family indicate by "cultural bias"?
It's "everything", the expert responded. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the firstborn had picked up "extremely delicate, unspoken signals" from the family, and had taken on their cultural habits. The family told him they hoped to prevent this pattern to happen again with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a UK tutor, who should speak with Received Pronunciation, to influence the baby right from the beginning.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the development at the beginning here is rather absorbed naturally," stated the CEO.
It's through this subtle influence that the family are aiming the child will adopt the UK customs they want to cultivate.
He said the tutor needed to be somebody who went to "the appropriate educational institutions – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The educator simply needs to be the suitable individual, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he commented.
Expense Not a Factor
The family informed the expert the selected educator should ideally also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, winter sports, creative fields and instrumental training so as to shape the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
More than that though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of courses so the child would be "pony-riding and learning an musical instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's minds, helping their son develop into a "English gentleman" will lead to achievement and open doors.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a status symbol," he comments.
But, in spite of all this guidance in "UK identity", might the child adopt alleged cultural leaning from the globally influenced family he resides with in any case?
"Yes", said the CEO. "The family understand this could fail, but they've simply adopted the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and we'll proceed as quickly as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he stated.
Idealistic and Unrealistic
A number of in the tutoring industry who have those concerns.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of Blue Education, who supplies personal educators, commented that "the process of embracing two identities, or actually, forming one's identity, is something that must be grown into, not engineered."
Peter wrote that he had emigrated from China to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been brought up experiencing and embodying both cultures. He continued to learn at the University of Cambridge.
"The idea that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, an individual who can somehow transfer the attributes of a UK sophisticate onto a 12-month-old child, seems to me idealistic and unrealistic," he commented.
"Based on my background, engaging a quintessentially English tutor from infancy will not necessarily produce the goal they want.
"I did not have that kind of mentor, and however I have been privileged enough to enjoy numerous of the opportunities they desire for their son."
He added: "The truth is, cultural identity cannot be dictated from the outside; it must be selected, and it must originate internally."
Purchasing UK Culture
Naturally, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be instructed – and marketed.
"I think the situation that the international society regards us in this light is something that we should be cherishing|valuing|appreciating
