"Parents located in North London wants to find an remarkable and skilled instructor to guide their most junior child on his initial journey to becoming an British gentleman."
Looking at this post, you might naturally skip the wording "initial stages" as just figurative language.
Yet, it might be the most significant aspect of this unique employment listing, as it aims to find a mentor for a 12-month-old.
Many of responses have since been sent in since the anonymous family advertised their search for the highly paid tutor, who needs to be "a uniquely qualified person".
In recent few weeks, the advert has gained interest in the news, with several questioning why?
Forward-Thinking Method
Adam Caller, CEO and founder of a global tutoring firm, which is helping the family in their search, said that despite early skepticism, he found the plan "forward-looking", and "innovative".
When he spoke with the family, he said they recognized the unusual aspect of their request, and how young their son is.
However, they stated that they "were unwilling to delay any longer" to get a tutor, as they had postponed until their elder sibling was five, and by that stage "cultural conditioning had already taken hold".
What precisely did the family indicate by "cultural predisposition"?
It's "comprehensive", he answered. "How you eat, the manner you speak".
He stated the older sibling had absorbed "extremely delicate, body language" from the family, and had taken on their cultural ways. The family told him they did not want history to recur with their new baby.
The strategy: To engage a British tutor, who should speak with RP, to guide the baby from the very start.
Osmotic Learning
"Much of the education at the start here is somewhat osmotic," said Adam.
It's via this natural absorption that the family are aiming the child will pick up the English characteristics they want to impart.
The consultant noted the tutor had to be somebody who went to "the right kinds of schools – similar types of schools as the family plan to send their son to".
"The tutor just has to be the right kind of person, they'll be doing things they may not realize they're doing, just naturally," he commented.
Cost Not Relevant
The family informed Adam the successful candidate should preferably also have understanding of or enthusiasm in horse riding, alpine skiing, the arts and music so as to shape the child in a wide range of interests.
Additionally though, he said the family desired the tutor to enrol the child on a selection of lessons so the child would be "horseback riding and picking up an musical instrument by the time they are around three years old".
In the family's view, guiding their son grow into a "British gentleman" will bring about success and provide access.
"Considering the advantages and disadvantages of that, because it's definitely a social class indicator," he comments.
But, in spite of all this tutelage in "UK identity", could the child pick up so-called cultural influence from the globally influenced family he is raised by regardless?
"Absolutely", said Adam. "They understand this could fail, but they've just taken the attitude of, 'we should try and we should start as early as we can', because the expense of it is not a concern," he explained.
Impractical
There are some in the private teaching field who share these concerns.
Another CEO, CEO and founder of a tutoring service, who also offer individual instructors, wrote that "the process of embracing two identities, or indeed, forming one's identity, is something that must be lived into, not engineered."
The expert explained that he had relocated from the Far East to the UK at the time of 7 years old, and had been raised knowing and embodying dual heritages. He continued to be educated at Cambridge University.
"The concept that an individual can function as a representation of English culture, an individual who can somehow impart the qualities of a English gentleman upon a 12-month-old child, appears naive and unfeasible," he wrote.
"In my experience, engaging a typically UK tutor from babyhood will will not necessarily achieve the result they hope for.
"I did not have such a figure, and yet I have been lucky enough to live many of the experiences they aspire for their son."
He continued: "The fact is, self-identity cannot be dictated from the outside influences; it must be embraced, and it must be internally driven."
Buying Britishness
Of course, Britishness is something the expert thinks can be taught – and sold.
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