"A family located in the northern part of London is looking for an extraordinary and skilled tutor to assist their youngest child on his first steps to growing into an British gentleman."
Upon seeing this post, you might naturally overlook the term "first-steps" as just a turn of phrase.
Yet, it may be the crucial part of this unique employment listing, as it aims to hire a teacher for a one-year-old.
Many of submissions have now been submitted since the unidentified family posted their call for the £180k-a-year tutor, who needs to be "an exceptional individual".
In recent few weeks, the advert has received attention in the media, with many asking why?
Progressive Approach
Adam Caller, chief executive of a global tutoring firm, which is supporting the family in their search, explained that despite first skepticism, he viewed the concept "far sighted", and "advanced".
When he consulted the family, he noted they recognized the unconventional nature of their request, and how young their son is.
But, they explained that they "didn't want to wait any longer" to hire a tutor, as they had waited until their older child was five, and by that point "cultural bias had already become established".
But what did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "everything", Adam answered. "How you eat, how you speak".
He explained the older sibling had picked up "very nuanced, non-verbal cues" from the family, and had assumed their cultural habits. The family told Adam they hoped to prevent history to happen again with their younger child.
The plan: To engage a British tutor, who needs to speak with Received Pronunciation, to shape the baby from the very start.
Natural Absorption
"Much of the education at the start here is somewhat absorbed naturally," said the expert.
It's through this natural absorption that the family are expecting the child will pick up the British traits they wish to instil.
The consultant noted the tutor must be somebody who attended "the right kinds of schools – comparable categories of schools as the family aspire to send their son to".
"The tutor must be the right kind of person, they'll be carrying out things they aren't even aware they're doing, simply by nature," he said.
Money No Object
The family told Adam the successful candidate should ideally also have familiarity of or enthusiasm in riding, alpine skiing, creative fields and music so as to influence the child in a broad spectrum of passions.
Additionally though, he explained the family desired the tutor to sign up the child on a variety of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and learning an instrument by the time they are about three years old".
In the family's perspective, guiding their son become a "British gentleman" will result in achievement and create opportunities.
"Considering the pros and cons of that, because it's certainly a class statement," he notes.
However, despite all this guidance in "Britishness", would the child pick up so-called cultural influence from the multicultural family he is raised by in any case?
"Yes", replied he. "The family realize this may not work, but they've merely embraced the perspective of, 'why not attempt it and let's go as soon as we can', because the price of it is not relevant," he explained.
Impractical
Several in the private teaching field who express similar doubts.
Peter Cui, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer personal educators, commented that "the process of adopting dual cultures, or actually, discovering oneself, is something that must be grown into, not manufactured."
He explained that he had emigrated from the Far East to the Britain at the age of seven, and had been raised experiencing and practicing both cultures. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The idea that one individual can act as a living vessel of English culture, an individual who can somehow impart the qualities of a British gentleman onto a one-year-old child, seems to me optimistic and unfeasible," he commented.
"In my experience, engaging a distinctly UK tutor from infancy will not instantly create the result they hope for.
"I never had such a figure, and nevertheless I have been lucky enough to experience several of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He added: "The fact is, self-identity can not be imposed from the outside; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Acquiring Englishness
Naturally, UK identity is something the expert thinks can be taught – and commercialized.
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