"A household located in North London seeks an remarkable and skilled tutor to support their most junior child on his first steps to growing into an English gentleman."
Looking at this advertisement, you might easily miss the phrase "initial stages" as mere a turn of phrase.
Yet, it might be the most significant aspect of this unique job advert, as it aims to find a tutor for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have since been submitted since the anonymous family advertised their call for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "someone very special".
In recent few weeks, the post has gained interest in the news, with many questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
The CEO, chief executive of Tutors International, which is helping the family in their hunt, said that in spite of early doubt, he considered the idea "far sighted", and "progressive".
When he met the family, he mentioned they understood the unconventional character of their demand, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to get a tutor, as they had held off until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural influence had by then taken hold".
But what does the family refer to by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", Adam responded. "The manner you eat, the manner you speak".
He said the older sibling had adopted "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family explained to Adam they hoped to prevent the same situation to recur with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with RP, to guide the baby from day one.
Subtle Influence
"Much of the learning at the start here is somewhat absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are hoping the child will pick up the British traits they want to cultivate.
The consultant said the tutor needed to be an individual who attended "prestigious academies – the same kinds of schools as the family hope to send their son to".
"The instructor must be the suitable individual, they'll be performing things they may not realize they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have knowledge of or enthusiasm in riding, skiing, the arts and musical activities so as to shape the child in a diverse set of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family hoped the tutor to register the child on a selection of classes so the child would be "pony-riding and starting an tool by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "UK sophisticate" will lead to success and open doors.
"For all the rights and wrongs of that, because it's undoubtedly a social class indicator," he comments.
But, notwithstanding all this instruction in "Britishness", might the child absorb alleged cultural bias from the globally influenced family he resides with regardless?
"Yes", replied the CEO. "They know this may not work, but they've just taken 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.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who share similar reservations.
Peter Cui, head and founder of an educational organization, who also offer individual instructors, commented that "the journey of becoming bicultural, or in fact, discovering oneself, is something that must be lived into, not manufactured."
He wrote that he had moved from the Far East to the Britain at the time of childhood, and had been educated knowing and living dual heritages. He progressed to study at the University of Cambridge.
"The concept that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, an individual who can possibly transfer the attributes of a British gentleman to a infant child, seems to me naive and unrealistic," he stated.
"Based on my background, employing a distinctly UK tutor from babyhood will does not instantly achieve the result they want.
"I wasn't provided with such a figure, and however I have been lucky enough to enjoy many of the situations they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, personal identity should not be forced from the outside influences; it must be chosen, and it must originate internally."
Acquiring Englishness
Certainly, UK identity is something the expert hopes can be instructed – and commercialized.
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